Bioactive Compounds for Anticancer Therapy

Dear Colleagues,

Despite advances in medicine, cancer remains a major challenge. As a disease of the whole organism, it requires a comprehensive approach and effective therapy. Improving available anti-cancer treatments (chemotherapy and radiotherapy) with antibody-targeted therapy, vitamin supplementation, or vaccines supporting the treatment process can still be insufficient.

New molecules for targeted therapies are being sought, as well as those which, by indirectly affecting signaling pathways in the body, will prevent the development of neoplastic diseases.

This Special Issue will be dedicated to new perspectives in anticancer treatment, according to bioactive compounds of natual and synthetic origin. New uses of already known molecules/copmpunds/drugs used in other diseases, e.g., such as ionophore antibiotics or statins, also represent a somewhat important search path.

Subjects that will be discussed in this Special Issue will not only focus on new bioactive compounds, modern methods, and technologies wich can make anticancer compounds more bioawailable and more effective with less side effects, but also on the verification of its properties in animal or human studies.

Dr. Beata Filip-Psurska
Dr. Ewa Maj
Guest Editors

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