Herbal Medicine for Prevention and Therapy in Breast Cancer

Concerns with herbal medicine including the consistency and standardisation of the herbal product (particularly the presence of bioactive compounds responsible for the effect), effectiveness, mode of action, safety, and herb-drug interaction if used as complementary and/or alternative medicine need...

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Published inEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine Vol. 2021; pp. 1 - 4
Main Authors Abu Bakar, Mohd Fadzelly, Saifudin, Azis, Cao, Peng, Mohd Esa, Norhaizan
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Hindawi 2021
Hindawi Limited
Subjects
Bioactive compounds
Breast cancer
Cancer therapies
Carvacrol
Cell cycle
Chemotherapy
Chinese medicine
Clinical trials
Cytochrome
Cytotoxicity
Drug interaction
Herbal medicine
Medical research
Metabolites
Molecular dynamics
Phytochemicals
Plant extracts
Prevention
Response rates
Systematic review
Tumor cell lines
China
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Summary:Concerns with herbal medicine including the consistency and standardisation of the herbal product (particularly the presence of bioactive compounds responsible for the effect), effectiveness, mode of action, safety, and herb-drug interaction if used as complementary and/or alternative medicine need to be further explored. Some of the papers of this special issue focus on plant extracts from different countries of the world, and their potential to treat and prevent breast cancer using in vitro and/or in vivo methods. L. B. Moses et al. investigated the anticancer capacity of Eurycoma longifolia (Jack.) or locally known as “Tongkat Ali” leaf extracts and their probable anticancer mode of action in vitro against non-hormone-dependent MDA-MB-231 and hormone-dependent MCF-7 breast cancer cell lines. O. Herrera-Calderon et al. proposed and evaluated the possible mechanism of action of carvacrol by using an in silico study on selected receptors involved in breast cancer progression by docking analysis, molecular dynamics, and drug-likeness studies.
ISSN:1741-427X
1741-4288
DOI:10.1155/2021/9760586