Objective To study the role of cell apoptosis during the chemotherapy of human gliocytoma in order to get effective suvilliance on the effect of chemotherapy. Methods Gliocytoma cells were isolated and cultured from 40 human gliocytoma samples. Mitochondrial membrance potential (MMP), cell cycle, the level of Bcl-2 and Bax were detected by flow cytometry (FCM) at 24, 48, 72 hours respectively of incubation with Lomustine (CCNU) and Teniposide (VM-26), and the trends were also analysed. Results MMP decreased greatly, the apoptosis part in the cell cycle ananlysis increase, the expression level of Bcl-2 decreased, and that of Bax increase rapidly, while the Bcl-2/Bax ratio decreased. Conclusions CCNU and VM-26 have singnificant effect in gliocytoma chemotherapy on inducing gliocytoma cell apoptosis. VM-26 has more stronger effect on the cell cycle. MMP is the most sensitive and the fastest index in apoptosis detection.