Research into Using Natural-Product-Related Medicines for Cancer

Dear Colleagues,

According to the World Health Organization, cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, having accounted for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020. With the rapidly growing number of cancer patients, less harmful and less toxic therapies have been recently introduced. Thus, research regarding this topic has been exceedingly active.

Significantly, nutrition and nutrition-based products have been sought to be utilized as less damaging cancer therapies. That said, it is noteworthy that various natural products have shown positive effects as anticancer agents; in addition, several anticancer therapeutics are derived from natural sources. Therefore, enormous efforts have been made to discover new cancer drugs from natural products.

This Special Issue aims to highlight the current situation regarding the use of natural-product-related medicines for cancer treatments, therapies, and interventions that might play a key role in helping patients throughout the course of treatment. Original research articles, reviews, or commentaries/perspectives that cover innovative nutritional cancer therapies or nutrition-based therapies combined with conventional cancer treatments are welcome. Importantly, the exact active ingredient of a natural product extract must be reported in the submitted research manuscript, as papers that describe the effects of mixed extraction from natural products  will not be accepted.

Prof. Dr. Seong-Gyu Ko
Guest Editor

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