| CAFs | Cancer associated fibroblasts |
| CHT | Caudal hematopoietic tissue |
| CSCs | Cancer stem cells |
| CTCs | Circulating tumor cells |
| CR | Conditional reprogrammed |
| Crispr/Cas9 | Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats/Cas9 |
| CSF-1 | Colony stimulating factor 1 |
| CSF1R | Colony stimulating factor 1 receptor |
| dpi | Days post-fertilization |
| EGFR | Epidermal growth factor receptor |
| EGF | Epithelial growth factor |
| EMT | Epithelial-mesenchymal transition |
| ECM | Extracellular matrix |
| FAP | Fibroblast-activating protein |
| GPF | Green fluorescent protein |
| hpf | Hours post-fertilization |
| hpi | Hours post-injection |
| IGF-1 | Insulin-like growth factor |
| IFN-γ | Interferon-γ |
| IL | Interleukin |
| M-CSF | Macrophage stimulation factor-1 |
| MET | Mesenchymal-epithelial transition |
| NET | Neuroendocrine tumors |
| NO | Nitric oxide |
| PDX | Patient-derived xenograft |
| RFP | Red fluorescent protein |
| SIVs | Sub-intestinal vessels |
| TEMs | Tie2-expressing macrophages |
| TGF-β | Transforming growth factor- β |
| TAMs | Tumor associated macrophages |
| VEGF | Vascular endothelial growth factor |
| WT | Wild-type |
| zPDX | Zebrafish patient-derived xenograft |