IL24 and neoplasm: Interleukins, such as IL-24, induce apoptosis and suppress growth in severaltumor types (Chang et al., 2011).Ad-IL-24 promoted tumor suppression (Changet al., 2011) and had its antitumor effectenhanced by radiotherapy in nasopharynx and breast cancer (Liu et al., 2013a; Zhaoet al., 2013).