Radiation Oncology/Drugs/Ethnopharmacologic therapeutic agent/Antrodia cinnamomea
- Antrodia cinnamomea is a fungus species, also known as AC fungus, or AC mushroom
- It causes brown heart rot of aromatic tree Cinnamomum kanehirai
- It is used in Taiwan medicine as a supposed remedy for cancer, hypertension, and hangover
- Yu-Kai Su et al. J Ethnopharmacol. 2017. Antrodia cinnamomea sensitizes radio-/chemo-therapy of cancer stem-like cells by modulating microRNA expression (PMID: 28602756)