The results suggest that erianin (7) induced cell apoptosis through the ERK pathway in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) (Liu et al., 2019) while suppressing the growth of bladder cancer cells EJ and T24 through JNK pathways with the IC50 values of 65.04 and 45.9 nM, respectively (Zhu et al., 2019). This evidence concerns the gene MAPK8 and nasopharyngeal carcinoma.