Kaplan-Meier plotter (http://kmplot.com/analysis/index.php?p) was used to analyze the prognostic role of the density of TANs on lung adenocarcinoma and TIMER ((http://cistrome.dfci.harvard.edu/TIMER/) was used to detect the expression of Notch3 on lung adenocarcinoma. This evidence concerns the gene NOTCH3 and lung adenocarcinoma.