• Mr. Anirban Pattanayak
• Dr. Lavkush Dwivedi
• Dr. Subhamoy Banik

Cancer is a major public health problem in most of the developed countries in around the world; however, there has been a notable improvement in the survival rate of patients over the past few decades owing to early detection and progress in medical treatment [1][2]. A few numbers of patients with cancer receive chemotherapy or chemo radiotherapy and benefit from treatment with anticancer drugs [1]. However this anticancer drug causes many side effects with a variety of symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, anorexia, diarrhoea, oral mucositis, and numbness, because of their toxic effects on normal cells/tissues [10]. Although many valuable strategies have been developed to treat or prevent these side effects, as these side effects often compromise patients’ quality of life. Therefore, an alternative or novel approach to treat or prevent these side effects is required[10]. The causes for cancer can be the use of tobacco, alcoholic beverages, infections such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HPV. There is a constant demand for new therapies of treatment and prevent this life from this dangerous threatening disease. The plant kingdom produces a lot of naturally occurring secondary metabolites which are being investigated for the anticancer activities for the development of new clinical drugs[10]. Since many years herbal medicines had been used and are still used in developing countries around the world as the primary source of medical treatment. Many plant species in the plant kingdom are already being used to treat or prevent the development of cancer. In recent years, several Kampo medicines (Japanese traditional herbal medicines- were imported from China 1,500 years ago and developed independently)[3] have been investigated using animal models and clinical trials to assess their effects on chemotherapy-induced side effects. In this paper we will discuss about the demand for natural compounds from medicinal plants and their properties which make them targets for potential anticancer treatments.

Medicinal Plants & Anticancer Agents.

" ANTICANCER PROPERTY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.3, Issue 10, page no.1216-1222, October-2016, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701219.pdf

" ANTICANCER PROPERTY OF MEDICINAL PLANTS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.3, Issue 10, page no. pp1216-1222, October-2016, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701219.pdf