This document discusses cancer and the need for new anti-cancer agents with minimal side effects. It notes that cancer is a major cause of mortality worldwide and that conventional chemotherapy is inadequate. Herbal medicines from plants are often used as alternatives to chemotherapy due to their lower cost. The document then focuses on Plumeria rubra trees, which are found in the Philippines and other tropical countries. Extract from their flowers has been shown to have anti-tumor activities and anti-cancer properties that can remove or deplete cancer cells, as demonstrated by IC50 values of the Plumeria rubra flower extract.
This document discusses cancer and the need for new anti-cancer agents with minimal side effects. It notes that cancer is a major cause of mortality worldwide and that conventional chemotherapy is inadequate. Herbal medicines from plants are often used as alternatives to chemotherapy due to their lower cost. The document then focuses on Plumeria rubra trees, which are found in the Philippines and other tropical countries. Extract from their flowers has been shown to have anti-tumor activities and anti-cancer properties that can remove or deplete cancer cells, as demonstrated by IC50 values of the Plumeria rubra flower extract.
This document discusses cancer and the need for new anti-cancer agents with minimal side effects. It notes that cancer is a major cause of mortality worldwide and that conventional chemotherapy is inadequate. Herbal medicines from plants are often used as alternatives to chemotherapy due to their lower cost. The document then focuses on Plumeria rubra trees, which are found in the Philippines and other tropical countries. Extract from their flowers has been shown to have anti-tumor activities and anti-cancer properties that can remove or deplete cancer cells, as demonstrated by IC50 values of the Plumeria rubra flower extract.
This document discusses cancer and the need for new anti-cancer agents with minimal side effects. It notes that cancer is a major cause of mortality worldwide and that conventional chemotherapy is inadequate. Herbal medicines from plants are often used as alternatives to chemotherapy due to their lower cost. The document then focuses on Plumeria rubra trees, which are found in the Philippines and other tropical countries. Extract from their flowers has been shown to have anti-tumor activities and anti-cancer properties that can remove or deplete cancer cells, as demonstrated by IC50 values of the Plumeria rubra flower extract.
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Hans Christian Gatungan 9 - Platinum
Background of the study
Cancer is an abnormal growth of cells which tend to proliferate in an uncontrolled way and in some cases, to metastasize or spread. Last 2015, an estimated 90 million new cases of cancer and this year, it is estimated that 14.1 million new cases will occur. Cancer is one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide and inadequacy of conventional / Chemotherapy to affect major reduction in mortality indicates the new approaches are critically needed. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop new anti-cancer agent with minimal side effect to our body. Chemotherapy or synthetic anti-cancer remedies are beyond the reach of a common person because of the factor which is the cost. Instead of these, Herbal Medicine is mostly used by common people especially people in rural areas, which is prepared from plants. Common people mostly think of Herbal Remedies as products sold over the counter as supplements. Plant derived natural products such as flavonoids and terpenoids etc. , have diverse pharmacological properties including anti-oxidant and cancer preventive effects. Plumeria rubra trees are found in the Philippines and also in other tropical countries. It’s flower extract has anti-tumor activities. Based on what I have read on an article, it has an anti-cancer property that can remove or deplete camcer cells. The main factor in this solution is the IC5O values on the Plumeria rubra flower extract.