The TAM receptors Axl, Tyro3, and MerTk were a family of receptor tyrosine kinases, skew macrophage polarization towards a pro-tumor M2-like phenotype in the tumor microenvironment, and promote apoptotic cell clearance through efferocytosis (Graham et al., 2014; Myers et al., 2019). This evidence concerns the gene MERTK and neoplasm.