NRP1, a non-tyrosine kinase transmembrane receptor, is highly expressed in many cancers, especially in gastrointestinal cancers, promoting metastasis and proliferation (Li et al., 2016; Zhang et al., 2018; Ding et al., 2019; De Vlaeminck et al., 2020; Abdullah et al., 2021; Wang et al., 2021). Here, NRP1 is linked to cancer.