Acetyl-CoA Acetyltransferase 2 Confers Radioresistance by Inhibiting Ferroptosis in Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

The overall survival of patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is not high due to the lack of markers to evaluate concurrent chemoradiation therapy (CCRT) resistance. The aim of this study is to use proteomics to identify a protein related to radiation therapy resistance and explore its molecular mechanisms.Proteomic data for pretreatment biopsy tissues from 18 patients with ESCC who underwent CCRT (complete response [CR] group, n = 8; incomplete response [