PIEZO1 and gastric cancer: Consistently, several recent studies provide increasing evidence to show that activation of the Piezo1 channel stimulates cell proliferation in gastric cancer cells (Zhang et al., 2018), and enhances cell migration in gastric cancer cells (Yang et al., 2014; Zhang et al., 2018) and malignant MCF-7 breast cancer cells (Li et al., 2015) but reduces non-small cell lung cancer progression and cell migration (Huang et al., 2019).