DDR1 and cancer: Recently, several roles of DDR1 in the metastatic process have been uncovered, ranging from the support for the colonization (Dai et al, 2021), to regulation of both dormant and metastatic reactivated cancer cell state (Di Martino et al, 2022; Gao et al, 2016), to immune escaping (Sun et al, 2021), accordingly to the architecture of the ECM deposited at the primary/metastatic tissue.