Abstract

CANCER A HERBAL APPROACH

Karan Suyal* and Preeti Sirola

ABSTRACT

Cancer is the major health disease which is mainly treated by the radiotherapy, chemotherapy and drug therapy. In beyond this there are some herbal ways available which can help a lot in the treatment of the dangerous harmful disease cancer in which the approach of some herbs done. As cancer is an uncontrolled cell division growth in the body system. In the past years there is no 100% safe treatment available for cancer so as it is the most dangerous diseases in the worldwide. Cancer is such diseases in which the number of patients increasing rapidly. There is a tumour formation done in the body by proliferation and oncogenes as protooncogene’s, as in the body system there are some tumour suppressor gene are present as BRCA. The clone cell death is important for the successful treatment of therapy and the herbal treatment is also used in nowadays for help in the treatment and with this it is necessary to find new herbal way to target the cancer cell. The morphological change in the cell is done by changes in cell by budding, condensation. Anticancer activity is the effect of natural, synthetic or the biological chemical agent to reverse, suppress or prevent carcinogenic progression. There are many synthetic agents and are other treatment are used to cure the disease, but some have exalted side effect, so research is still going on to investigate the more potent anti-cancer drug with minimum side effect which is expected from plant derived chemotherapeutic agent. It is very tedious to search and present on desk information about of the plants spread throughout world with known anti-cancer effects therefore effort has been made to review the plants used for the treatment and prevention of cancer from uttarakhand state of India. The human diet includes a complex herbal polyphenol. These phenols have cytotoxic effects on different tumours. Mechanisms of these compounds are carried out through apoptosis.

Keywords: Cancer, herbal approach neoplasm, herbal anti-neoplastic, natural chemotherapeutic agents, anti-cancer agents, botanical, apoptosis.