Natural Products as Anticancer Agents: Current Status and Future Perspectives

• Published in: Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 27; no. 23; p. 8367
• Main Authors: Naeem, Abid, Hu, Pengyi, Yang, Ming, Zhang, Jing, Liu, Yali, Zhu, Weifeng, Zheng, Qin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 30.11.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Alopecia; Angiogenesis; anti-cancer plants; Antimitotic agents; Antineoplastic agents; Antineoplastic Agents - pharmacology; Antineoplastic Agents - therapeutic use; Baldness; bioactive anti-tumor agents; Biological Products - chemistry; Biological Products - pharmacology; Biological Products - therapeutic use; Cancer; Cancer therapies; Care and treatment; Cell cycle; chemoprevention; Chemotherapy; Clinical trials; Disease prevention; Drug delivery systems; Drug Discovery; Drug resistance; Humans; Kinases; Medical prognosis; Medical research; Metastasis; Methods; Mortality; Natural products; Neoplasms - drug therapy; Neoplasms - prevention & control; phytochemicals; Radiation therapy; Review; Skin cancer; Testing; China; bioactive anti-tumor agents; natural products; phytochemicals; chemoprevention; anti-cancer plants; chemotherapy

Natural products have been an invaluable and useful source of anticancer agents over the years. Several compounds have been synthesized from natural products by modifying their structures or by using naturally occurring compounds as building blocks in the synthesis of these compounds for various pur...