The TFDP2-PDK3 axis drives glucose metabolic reprogramming to promote radioresistance in nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
BACKGROUND Although nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is highly radiosensitive, tumor radioresistance inevitably leads to local recurrence and distant metastasis, posing a major clinical challenge for NPC treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS By integrating single-cell RNA sequencing data from eight local NPC samples, mRNA s...