CD8A and neoplasm: Although NK cells seem to reach the tumor bed to a lesser extent than other lymphocytes such as CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, their presence within the tumor correlates with a higher survival rate, as reported in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (Weil et al., 2017; Concha-Benavente et al., 2018), colorectal cancer (Sconocchia et al., 2014), prostate tumor (Izawa et al., 2011) in gastric and esophageal cancers (Lorenzo-Herrero et al., 2019) and metastatic melanoma (Cursons et al., 2019b).