AFAP1-AS1	Actin Filament Associated Protein 1
ALDH1	Aldehyde dehydrogenase 1
AP-1	Activator protein 1
ATM	Ataxia telangiectasia mutated
BrdU	Bromodeoxyuridine/5-bromo-2’-deoxyuridine
CAFs	Cancer-associated fibroblasts
CCNB1	Cyclin B1
Cdc25A	Cell division cycle 25 A
ChIP	Chromatin immunoprecipitation
Cks1	Cyclin-dependent kinase subunit 1
c-MET RTK	c-MET receptor tyrosine kinase
CTGF	Connective tissue growth factor
dCRT	Definitive chemoradiotherapy
DDR	DNA damage response
DNA-PKcs	DNA protein kinase
DNM3OS	Dynamin 3 Opposite Strand
DOAJ	Directory of open access journals
EC	Esophageal cancer
ESCC	Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
FAM201A	Family with sequence similarity 201 member A
FOXO1	Forkhead box protein O1
HNSCC	Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
LD	Linear dichroism
LINC00473	Long Intergenic Non-Protein Coding RNA 473
lncRNAs	Long non-coding RNAs
MALAT1	Metastasis-Associated Lung Adenocarcinoma Transcript 1
MDPI	Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
miRNAs	MicroRNAs
MRE1	Meiotic recombination 11 homolog 1
mTOR	Mammalian target of rapamycin
NBS1	Nijmegen breakage syndrome 1
NHEJ	Non-homologous end joining
NORAD	Non-coding RNA activated by DNA damage
p-Akt	Phosphorylated-Akt
PARP	Protein and cleaved poly ADP ribose polymerase
pChk2	Phosphorylated checkpoint kinase 2
PDGFR α/β	Platelet-derived growth factor α/β
PDGFβ	PDGF β-polypeptide
PDGFβR	Platelet-derived growth factor receptor βpolypeptide
PFS	Progression-free survival
POU6F2—AS2	POU6F2 Antisense RNA 2
qRT-PCR	Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction
SNPs	Single nucleotide polymorphisms
SPIN1	Spindlin 1
TNM	Tumor node metastasis
TUG1	Taurine-Upregulated Gene 1
TUSC7	Tumor Suppressor Candidate 7
YAP	Yes-associated protein
γH2AX	yH2A histone family member X