Fighting Cancer by Phytochemicals

Nature is considered as an enormous contributor in anticancer drugs. Although more than half century had passed on its discovery, taxol is still, till now, a unique anticancer agent. Other compounds as vincristine, vinblastine, camptothecins, etoposide and others are plant derived and effective against cancer.A fact that out of 121 drugs prescribed for cancer treatment till date, 90 are derived from plant sources [1].