TIMP1 and neoplasm: Expression levels of the MYC/CXCL8/TIMP1 oncogenes were analyzed using UALCAN (http://ualcan.path.uab.edu/), a comprehensive open-access public online tool for analyzing cancer data [49] Expression levels of the MYC/CXCL8/TIMP1 oncogenes in CRC primary tumor samples (red) were compared to adjacent normal samples (blue), with p < 0.05 considered statistically significant (Figure 3A–C).