Full methodologies for MTT assay, Tubulin assay, flow cytometry, DNA fragmentation, RT-PCR genes expression analysis, and docking results for other compounds are supported as supplementary 1. Cell cultures and MTT assay A549, MCF-7 and GMSC cell lines were provided from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, USA) via VACERA Co. (Egypt). Cells were maintained and propagated in proper complete RPMI-1640/DMEM media l-Glutamine (Lonza Verviers SPRL, Belgium, cat#12-604F) which supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) (Seralab, UK, cat# EU-000-H), and 1% antibiotic (Antibiotic antimycotic, Biowest, cat# L0010). The cells were reared in humidified incubator with 5% CO2 at 37 °C, sub-cultured using 0.25% (w/v) trypsin/EDTA, and then counted using trypan blue staining and investigated under inverted microscope according to the standard tissue culture technique.The cytotoxic effects of the tested heterocyclic steroids on A549, MCF-7 and GMSC cell lines were evaluated by the cell viability colorimetric assay using MTT (3-[4,5methylthiazol-2-yl]-2,5-diphenyl-tetrazolium bromide) dye. 5-FU is a standard reference drug was used as a positive control. Briefly, cell line (1×10 4 cells/well) were seeded in a 96-well plate in triplicate and were allowed to adhere for 24 h. Compounds were dissolved in 500 µl Dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) to have stock solution of 100 mM, then various concentrations of the tested derivatives or 5-FU were prepared by diluting in complete medium to have four final concentration of 1, 10, 100, and 1000 µM. Worth noting, the final concentration of DMSO in the culture medium didn't exceed 0.2% (v/v). Treated and non-treated cells were allowed to grow for 48 h. 10 μl of MTT (5 mg/ml in PBS w/o Ca, Mg, Lonza Verviers SPRL Belgium, cat#17-516F) was added in each well four hours before completion of incubation. After the incubation with MTT, color was developed by adding 100 μl of DMSO to each well and measured at 490 nm using Bio-Tek microplate reader. The experiment was conducted six times. Data were calculated as percent of cell viability by the following formula: % cell viability= (Mean absorbance in test wells / Mean absorbance in control wells) ×100, then IC50 was calculated using the Origin software.