Natural Compounds in Cancer Therapy and Prevention, 2nd Edition

Dear Colleagues,

Cancer prevention and therapy represent the greatest challenges of our time, with major efforts being made to prevent cancer onset and progression and to pharmacologically treat oncologic patients. Currently, naturally derived drugs are used in clinics, such as vincristine, actinomycin D, bleomycin, doxorubicin, irinotecan and many others. However, due to the lack of effective therapeutic strategies for many cancers and the side effects associated with chemotherapy, we must identify new therapeutic approaches. In this context, natural extracts represent a source of new chemicals that could aid the development of new anticancer drugs. Similarly, it is well known that natural extracts may enable cancer prevention, mainly by exerting antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities. In this context, the identification and the biological characterization of new compounds and the evaluation of their protective and therapeutic effects on cancer progression is of great interest.

The potential topics include, but are not limited to: the anticancer activity of natural compounds; the effects of natural compounds on tumor growth and migration; the antimetastatic activity of natural compounds; natural products in cancer prevention; the isolation and identification of pharmacologically active compounds from natural extracts; drug discovery; and the immunomodulatory activity of natural compounds. In the first volume, 16 papers were published. We invite you to read them publications and contribute to volume 2.0.

Dr. Federica Finetti
Dr. Lorenza Trabalzini
Guest Editors

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