《Cancer Inhibitors from Chinese Natural Medicines》CRC(2017)
The risk of cancer is significantly increasing nowadays, which is
a serious social and health problem threatening human beings.
Hence numerous scientists continuously endeavor on this imperative
issue of conquering the malignant disease and declining the
incidence of cancer. Because over 60% of currently used anticancer
agents are derived from natural sources directly or indirectly,
the discovery and development of new effective and safe
cancer inhibitors from folk medicines still are important research
subjects. In recent decades a large quantity of natural products
isolated from Chinese natural medicines have been found to have
remarkable bioactivities in the inhibition of cancer cell proliferation,
induction of apoptotic death, lessening of metastasis, blockage
of angiogenesis in the tumor tissues, and enhancement of
present chemo- and radiotherapies. All these remarkable achievements
not only afford scientific reasons for utilizing Chinese
herbs to augment conventional therapies but also provide various
important information for new drug design and development and
new therapy strategies to improve the quality of cancer treatment
and prevention. The greatest successful example of the discovery
and development of novel drugs from Chinese natural medicines
is artemisinin, a powerful antimalaria drug from a Chinese herb,
Artemisia apiacea. The drug was complimented by the World
Health Organ ...
The risk of cancer is significantly increasing nowadays, which is
a serious social and health problem threatening human beings.
Hence numerous scientists continuously endeavor on this imperative
...
