STMN1 and nasopharyngeal carcinoma: To investigate the molecular mechanism by which miR-101 increased the radiosensitivity of NPC cells, STMN1 was identified as a potential target of miR-101 based on the three publicly available databases [TargetScan (http://www.targetscan.org), miRanda (http://www.microrna.org/microrna/home.do) and Pictar (http://pictar.mdc-berlin.de/)] and a previous study (7).