CD47 is a highly glycated, anti-phagocytic molecule expressed on macrophages that is also widely distributed on the surfaces of various cells (Engelbertsen et al., 2019), such as tumor cells (Lo et al., 2015; Zhao et al., 2016; Betancur et al., 2017), red blood cells (Velliquette et al., 2019), and cardiomyocytes (Wang et al., 2016). This evidence concerns the gene CD47 and neoplasm.