Phytopharmaceuticals as Important Anticancer Therapeutic Agents

Abstract

Cancer is usually referred to group of diseases which are associated with abnormal growth of cells in different parts of the body. It is presenting serious threat to the global health since decades. Different phytochemicals obtain from an array of plants have offered a treatment route to the varying sorts of cancers. The phytochemicals have been shown to effective against cancer individually as well as in combination with other therapeutic technologies. Phytochemicals like curcumin, thymol, rosmarinic acid is clinically found to effective against bladder cancer, apoptotic death and colon carcinoma. Each phytochemical has its own mechanism for fighting with particular cancer, for instance curcumin is capable of increasing histologic parameters which are helpful in the fight against bladder cancer. This study is focused on elaboration of some vital phytochemicals which are proven to be effective against some sort of cancer (or carcinogenic elements), their mechanism of action, origin and clinical data against the disease.