Anticancer Natural Products: A Review. Historically, natural products played a forceful role in human treatment ailments. Nowadays, natural products include a large part of current pharmaceutical agents, mostly in the field of cancer therapy.
The main aim of this review is to provide a comprehensive summary of the most known natural product used as anticancer globally, including various other natural products. Many of these natural product appears to act through an anticancer mechanism. Overall, natural product research is a vigorous tool to discover novel biologically active components with unique mechanisms of action.
Given the diversity of nature, it is sensible to indicate that chemical leads can be produced that are able t This review creates a solid foundation for further study these natural products with additional research and study.
Cancer is a serous global health problem responsible for millions of deaths all over the world.
Despite the progress in the field of cancer research, still there is a need to discover and develop anti-cancer therapeutic agents. Since long it has been recognized that, natural products represent the richest source of high chemical diversity.
According to a recent review, 49% of drugs were either natural products or their derivatives that are used in cancer treatment. In addition, natural product researchers have examined other taxonomic classes of organisms found all over the
world, including algae, bacteria, fungi, and even terrestrial vertebrates.
Natural product drug discovery for anticancer agents
requires special procedures involved with sample collection, inclusive of the development of “benefit-sharing” agreements with source countries
whether the samples are of marine or terrestrial origin.
Cancer Stud Mol Med Open J. 2019; 5(1): 11-22. doi: 10.17140/CSMMOJ-5-127