PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Pengfei Zhu AU - Hongrui Lu AU - Mingxing Wang AU - Ke Chen AU - Zheling Chen AU - Liu Yang TI - Targeted mechanical forces enhance the effects of tumor immunotherapy by regulating immune cells in the tumor microenvironment AID - 10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2022.0491 DP - 2023 Jan 15 TA - Cancer Biology & Medicine PG - 44--55 VI - 20 IP - 1 4099 - http://www.cancerbiomed.org/content/20/1/44.short 4100 - http://www.cancerbiomed.org/content/20/1/44.full SO - Cancer Biology & Medicine2023 Jan 15; 20 AB - Mechanical forces in the tumor microenvironment (TME) are associated with tumor growth, proliferation, and drug resistance. Strong mechanical forces in tumors alter the metabolism and behavior of cancer cells, thus promoting tumor progression and metastasis. Mechanical signals are transformed into biochemical signals, which activate tumorigenic signaling pathways through mechanical transduction. Cancer immunotherapy has recently made exciting progress, ushering in a new era of “chemo-free” treatments. However, immunotherapy has not achieved satisfactory results in a variety of tumors, because of the complex tumor microenvironment. Herein, we discuss the effects of mechanical forces on the tumor immune microenvironment and highlight emerging therapeutic strategies for targeting mechanical forces in immunotherapy.