ROR1 and cancer: Moreover, they speculated that studies evaluating ROR1 via immunohistochemistry using any one of several anti-ROR1 mAbs actually may have detected cytoplasmic protein encoded by ROR1V3 and that anti-cancer therapies targeting surface ROR1 thus would be ineffective against “cytoplasmic ROR1-positive” cancers that express predominately ROR1V3.