We found that EMP3 expression correlated with the expression of M2 TAM markers in both the TCGA and CGGA datasets (Fig. 1d, Supplementary Fig. 1D) and that EMP3 was correlated with immunosuppressive factors of tumour cells and factors of exhausted cytotoxic T lymphocytes (Fig. 1e, Supplementary Fig. 1E). Here, EMP3 is linked to neoplasm.