MerTK is known to play a fundamentally protective role in cardiovascular disease (e.g., atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, and vascular aging), brain disorders, cancers, other pathologies by promoting efferocytosis, inflammation resolution, and vascular remodeling [[1], [2], [3],5,10,11,[13], [14], [15],21]. Here, MERTK is linked to cancer.