To determine whether Kindlin-3 expression may reflect the amount of tumor infiltrating leukocytes (TILs) we analyzed the mRNA levels of different immune markers in the same series of tumors and found that triple negative and ERBB2 tumors presented the highest levels of CD45, CD86, CD28 and CD4 (Additional file 2: Figure S3A). Here, CD86 is linked to neoplasm.