Medicinal Plants for Tumor Treatments
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Plant Sciences".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 June 2025 | Viewed by 1029
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
For decades, the majority of cancer cases have been considered Western-country diseases. Indeed, except for tumors with a viral origin, the vast majority of tumors develop with age, and the developing countries did not have a life expectancy that favored the development of cancer. Moreover, the majority of treatments were derived from extremely expensive pharmaceutical industry work. With the increasing incidence of cancer in countries with low GNP, treatments used in Western countries are not accessible to the general population. These countries have been able to keep their links with ethnobotany and traditional practitioners intact. On the other hand, Western patients are reluctant to use “modern” medicine, as shown by the COVID-19 crisis and the suspicion regarding RNA vaccines. A return to chemistry closer to what they know would allow for better acceptance.
Altogether, the interest in plant-derived compounds that could be used in cancer treatment has been increasing for several reasons: (i) using already-tested plant extracts for a different disease to treat cancer, which allows a cheaper medication; (ii) discovering new active molecules that could eventually be chemically modified to increase their efficiency; and (iii) deciphering novel signaling pathways and/or metabolism that could be targeted.
This Special Issue plans to provide new insights on the three points listed above. Hence, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the effects of plant extracts on various tumors, the molecular characterization of extract effects, and the chemical purification and/or modification of natural extracts.
Prof. Dr. Jean-Marc A. Lobaccaro
Dr. Anne Vejux
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oncology
- plant extracts
- ethnobotany
- tumor treatment
- molecular characterization
- chemical purification
- pharmacology
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