Transcriptomic profiling and analysis of CAFs isolated from breast cancer skin metastasis, cutaneous basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma unravelled major gene candidates such as IL6, VEGFA and MFGE8 that induced co-expression of keratins-8/-14 in the EM-G3 cell line derived from infiltrating ductal breast carcinoma. Here, KRT8 is linked to squamous cell carcinoma.