An Insight into Cancer and Anticancer Drugs

Vitamin E and cancer: An insight into the anticancer activities of vitamin E isomers and analogs.

Current observations in the literature suggest that vitamin E may be a suitable candidate for the adjuvant treatment of cancer. Even though historically most research focused on alpha-tocopherol, more recent evidence suggests that the other isomers of vitamin E (beta-, gamma- and delta-tocopherols and alpha-, beta-, gamma- and delta-tocotrienols) differ in their proapoptotic potencies. The main...

an insight into salivary markers in oral cancer

salivary diagnostics has fascinated many researcheres and has been tested as a valuable tool in the diagnosis of many systemic conditions and for drug monitoring. advances in the field of molecular biology, salivary genomics and proteomics have led to the discovery of new molecular markers for oral cancer diagnosis, therapeutics and prognosis. oral cancer is a potentially fatal disease and the ...

Cancer cells acquire resistance to anticancer drugs: an update.

The efficacy of cancer chemotherapy is often affected by the emergence of resistant can-cer cells. While biochemical and pharmaco-logical mechanisms have been proposed to ex-plain chemo-resistance, the genes involved in this process have not been fully identified. We previously used genomic DNA microarrays and quantitative RT-PCR to identify the genes associated with resistance to chemotherapeu...

Natural Based Anticancer Drugs and Their Worthiness

Obesity and prostate cancer: an insight into postmodern medicine.

OBESITY and prostate cancer are entities of postmodern medicine. Whereas the modern era ushered in immunizations, aseptic technique, antibiotics and access to clean water, the postmodern era is defined by excess and consumption. Excessive caloric consumption (obesity), excessive antibiotic use and perhaps even excessive screening practices (prostate cancer) are a major part of the landscape of ...