VIM and cancer: In these three types of human cancer, we found a significant positive association between NME1 mRNA and KRT18 mRNA, and a negative association between the mRNAs of NME1, VIM and the EMT drivers SNAI2 and ZEB1. The strongest negative association in these tumors was between NME1 and ZEB1 mRNAs, as shown by the very high value of the Spearman’s correlation coefficient.