Abstract:Overview
The treatment of many diseases owes much to the importance of medicines derived from natural sources, and the treatment of malignant disease is no exception. Billions of years of evolutionary pressure have resulted in the natural selection of plants, fungi, and microorganisms capable of producing potent and specific toxins. After several plant‐derived compounds and other natural products, many of which targeted the mitotic processes, demonstrated prominent anticancer activity in the 1950s an… Show more
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