5-FU	5-Fluorouracil
AJCC	American Joint Committee on Cancer
ALA	Alpha-linolenic acid
bp	Base pairs
cDNA	Complementary DNA
CSS	Charcoal-stripped bovine serum
Ct	Cycle threshold
DB	Database
DE	Differential expression
efp	estrogen-responsive finger protein
EV	Extracellular vesicle
FBS	Foetal bovine serum
FDR	False discovery rate
g	Gravity
GEO	Gene Expression Omnibus
GI50	50% Cell growth inhibition
GSEA	Gene Set Enrichment Analysis
Gy	Gray
HKG	Housekeeping gene
HNRNPC	Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein C
HVL	Half Value Layer
Inh.	Inhibitor
INOH	Integrating Network Objects with Hierarchies database
IPEMB	Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Biology
KEGG	Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes
kVp	Peak kilovoltage
LD50	Lethal Dose 50%
LPE	Lysophosphatidylethanolamine
mA	Miliampere
miRNA	MicroRNA
miRTarBase	Database of miRNA-Target interactions
mRNA	Messenger RNA
mutp53	Mutated p53
MWU	Mann Whitney U test
nCRT	Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy
NGS	Next generation sequencing
OAC	Oesophageal Adenocarcinoma
OSCC	Oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma
OXPHOS	Oxidative phosphorylation
PBS	Phosphate buffered saline
PE	Plating efficiency
PI	PhosphatidylinositolPropidium iodide
PID	Pathway Interaction Database
piRNA	PIWI-interacting RNA
PPAR	Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor
Pten	Phosphatase and Tensin homolog
QC	Quality control
qPCR	Quantitative polymerase chain reaction
RNA	Ribonucleic acid
RP	Ribosomal protein
RPMI	Roswell Park Memorial Institute medium
RT	Reverse transcription
SD	Standard Deviation
SF	Survival fraction
SSD	Source to skin distance
TMM	Trimmed mean of M values
TP53	Tumor protein p53
TRG	Tumor Regression Grade
UV	Ultraviolet
V-FITC	V-Fluorescein isothiocyanate