Review Article
Hardesh K Maurya*
Medicinal Chemistry Department, CSIR-Central Institute of Aromatic and Medicinal Plants, Picnic Spot road,
Lucknow-226015, India
Abstract
This review presents the stimulating area of natural and synthetic anticancer drugs which are presently used for the cure of various type of cancer. In this review, twenty one naturally, semisynthetic naturally occurring and 109 synthetic anticancer drugs are reported. The emphasis of this review has described related structure, mechanism of action and major disadvantage of these drugs with the aims of providing an overview of anticancer drugs. This review will be provide current status of cancer drug and helpful to make strategy in the
search of novel anticancer molecular medicine in future.
Keywords: Anticancer drugs; Chemotherapy; Cancer; Carcinoma; Tumor; Cancer medicine
