The artemisinin related compound dihydroartemisinin induces autophagy via suppressing NF-κB pathway in myeloma, colorectal, and cervical cancer cell lines (Hu et al., 2014), while the anti-invasive activity of dihydroartemisinin may occur through preventing of PKCa/Raf/ERK and JNK phosphorylation and decreasing NF-κB (Hwang et al., 2010). This evidence concerns the gene NFKB1 and plasma cell myeloma.