Preventive Oncology and Diagnostic Cancer

Plants Against Cancer

Lately natural plants have been used to prevent and to treat various diseases. Certain bioactive components from the plants have been known for their anti-cancer activities. There is an estimate that many cancer patients in the world utilize drugs derived from different parts of plants or nutrients, exclusively or concomitantly with traditional therapeutic regimen such as chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy. It can be curcumin from turmeric, genistein from soybean, tea polyphenols from green tea, resveratrol from grapes, sulforaphane from broccoli, isothiocyanates from cruciferous vegetables, silymarin from milk thistle, diallyl sulfide from garlic, and many more.