Traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)has unique advantages in the treatment of tumor,and the use of TCM in clinical intervention of nasopharyngeal carcinoma has achieved remarkable curative effect.Apoptosis is a spontane-ous programmed cell death process,which is closely related to the occurrence and development of tumors.Modem pharma-cological studies have confirmed that a variety of TCM monomers and compounds can inhibit the development of nasopha-ryngeal carcinoma by inducing apoptosis,but the mechanism of inducing apoptosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells has not been fully revealed due to the characteristics of TCM with multi-components,multi-path ways,multi-links and multi-tar-gets.By searching,analyzing,summarizing and summarizing the relevant literatures at home and abroad in recent years,the author reviewed the mechanism of inducing apoptosis of nasopharyngeal carcinoma cells by TCM monomer and compound.
Nasopharyngeal cancerTraditional Chinese medicineCell apoptosisMechanism