HERBAL TREATMENT FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF CANCERS AND THEIR PHARMACOLOGY

Nampelly Raaziiv Varma*

Natural products, including medicinal plants, are characterized by varied chemical structures and bioactive properties, which, although extensively studied, have yielded successful examples of natural anti-cancer agents. Natural products exhibit anticancer activities often derived from flavonoids, phenolic acids, alkaloids, terpenes, and other phytochemical molecules. For patients, herbal anti-cancer drugs have some clear advantages of clinical applications with targeted therapy; they achieve good selective toxicity and present significantly lower, fewer and manageable side effects. Despite the successes of natural products as anti-cancer drugs, there are still a number of challenges to face with respect to development, application, and usage of natural anti-cancer drugs including, but not limited to, acceptable standards for herbal extracts, delivery mechanisms, and developing therapeutic regulations on herbal therapies to be managed as adjunctive agents with other chemotherapeutic drugs. In the future, interdisciplinary academic studies and clinical health professionals should support research and provide clinical guidance to use herbal cancer therapy into the contemporary menus of cancer patient health care.