This work was supported by the grants from the Prophase Force-Study Program of the Jiangsu Province Natural Science Foundation (No. BK2005203), the Medical Science Technology Research "Eleventh Five-Year" Program of the People's Liberation Army (No. 06MAlll), and the Focal Project of Nanjing Medical Technology Development (No. ZKX05030).
Background Platinum-based chemotherapeutics are the most common regimens for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients, and genetic factors are thought to represent important determinants of drug efficacy...
This work was supported by the grants from the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No. BK2005203) and the Developing Program for Medical Technology of Nanjing, China (No. ZKX05030)
Tetrandrine is known to exert antitumor effect, however, little is known about its effect on nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells. In this study, we tested tetrandrine-induced apoptosis and radiosensitivity in nasopharyngea...