TOMM40 and cancer: During the assessment of the tumor stage correlation, we observed a notable rise in TOMM40 expression in the initial tumor stage (Fig. 8) across 16 cancer types, namely CHOL, LUSC, LUAD, KIRP, HNSC, LIHC, ESCA, KIRC, UCEC, BLCA, COAD, READ, STAD, PRAD, THCA, and BRCA.