A Review of Plants with Anticancer Properties

Abstract

Traditional herbal treatments are becoming increasingly popular owing to their ease of use, low cost, and absence of side effects. Several naturally occurring plant-based substances, including curcumin, resveratrol, and quercetin, have shown promise as anticancer treatments. Recent studies have concentrated on discovering drug-like molecules generated from these plants that are less harmful to healthy cells while specifically targeting sick cells. Unlike traditional pharmaceuticals, these molecules have structures that are similar to those found in nature. Antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimutagenic, and apoptosis-inducing qualities found in herbal substances aid in the early detection of cancer. Adequate dietary consumption of these products may contribute to the prevention and treatment of cancers by inducing cell cycle arrest, apoptosis, regulating carcinogen metabolism and oncogenic expression, inhibiting cell adhesion, proliferation, and migration, and blocking signaling pathways critical for cancer progression. Herbal remedies are a novel and secure way to cancer therapy that provides both efficacy and safety. The purpose of this review is to shed light on some of these plants and their confirmed anticancer activities.