The human cancer cell lines Detroit 562 (#CCL-138, pharyngeal carcinoma), FaDu (#HTB-43, squamous cell pharyngeal carcinoma), HT1080 (#CCL-121, fibrosarcoma), MIA PaCa-2 (#CRL-1420, pancreas carcinoma), NCI-H460 (#HTB-177, large cell lung carcinoma) and T98G (#CRL-1690, glioblastoma) were purchased from ATCC. The human cancer cell lines CAL-33 (#ACC 447, tongue squamous cell carcinoma), DU-145 (#ACC 261, prostate carcinoma), HEP-3B (#ACC 93, hepatocellular carcinoma), LNCaP (#ACC 256, prostate carcinoma) and PC-3 (#ACC 465, prostate adenocarcinoma) were purchased from DSMZ. The human cancer cell lines MDA-MB-231-luc-D3-H2LN (breast adenocarcinoma) and NCI-H460-Luc2 (large cell lung carcinoma) were purchased from Caliper. Cells were cultivated according to manufacturer’s recommendations and were controlled for mycoplasma by an independent laboratory (Clean Cells). NBTXR3 (Nanobiotix) is a sterile aqueous suspension of functionalized crystal hafnium oxide (HfO2) spherical nanoparticles with a size centered on 50nm, determined by dynamic light scattering technique (Zetasizer NanoZS, Malvern Instruments Ltd, Worcestershire, UK), bearing a marked negative surface charge (–50mV) in aqueous solution at pH 6–8,2 (link),4 (link) estimated by zeta potential analysis (Zetasizer NanoZS). Cisplatin (CDDP) was obtained from Sigma Aldrich.