Herbal Technology: An Emerging Approach for Treatment of Colon Cancer

Abstract

Conventionally used drug for a treatment of life-threatening disease like cancer gives lighter therapeutic response along with high rate of adverse effects on normal cells, leading to insufficient activity over the tumor cells. These side effects of drug agents over normal cell causes restriction to increase the dose for proper targeting over the tumor cells. The less quantity drug for tumor cell develops resistance over it which causes lacking of response for prevention and treatment of cancer. So herbal agent could be better beneficial for targeting on tumor cell with lighter side effect. The various herbal agents will be discussed as per review that can be beneficial for treatment of colon cancer. A Comprehensive review.

Objective: To describe various safer herbal drugs and herbal technology with reduced adverse effects which can be implemented for treatment of cancer.

Method: Data for review were collected from, PubMed, Science Direct, Medline using the following key-words: ‘cancer’, ‘introduction’, ‘drug resistance’, ‘challenges in treatment of cancer’, ‘overview of colon cancer’, ‘novel herbal drugs of treatment of cancer’, and ‘recent advances in herbal technology for colon cancer’.