A review on herbal drug therapy for cancer treatment

Author: 
Padmavathi Sakinala, Asha Gummadi, Aishwarya Annapureddy, Sravani Gotteparthy and Madhavilatha

Cancer is a more prone disease. There are various causes to get the cancer. The socioeconomic conditions are one of the reason to get the cancer. The signs and symptoms are varied from the different types of cancers. Chemotherapy of cancer plays a very important role in the treatment of cancer but it is having lot of side effects. The reason to adopt natural drugs for treatment of cancer was due to the less side effects. The whole plant or parts of the plant can be used as a anticancer agents. Most of the plant drugs inhibit proliferation of the transformed cell, some of the drugs were inhibitors of nucleic acids, some may act by inhibiting certain important enzymes such as topoisomerase. Hence their study reveals that natural drugs can be used for treatment of cancer with less side effects.

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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2019.17487.3319
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