Several tumor models in Drosophila (RasV12scrib, RasV12, vps25) recruit hemocytes to overgrowing tumor tissues, with parallels to mammalian TAMs (Diwanji and Bergmann, 2020; Hirooka et al., 2025; Khalili et al., 2023; Pastor-Pareja et al., 2008; Perez et al., 2017; Voutyraki et al., 2023). This evidence concerns the gene VPS25 and neoplasm.