MafB in CD14+ monocytes promoted tumorigenesis, cellular proliferation, and invasion in colorectal cancer (Yang et al., 2016), T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Pajcini et al., 2017), nasopharyngeal carcinoma (Yang et al., 2015), and HCC (Yu et al., 2016). Here, CD14 is linked to T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.