"Natural Products and Cancer Drug Discovery" ed. by Farid A. Badria

This volume describes new applications of common herbs and foods for treatment of cancer. The book is written by leading experts in natural products in cancer therapy. This book may motivate readers to approach the evidence of anticancer natural products with an open mind and thereby spark an interest in making further contributions to the cancer treatment efforts.

The first two sections describe new applications of common herbs and foods for treatment of cancer. Section 3 deals with the development of new chemotherapeutics from Cannabis and endophytic fungi. Section 4 presented formulations of natural products for treatment of malignant melanoma. Made-to-order anticancer therapy from natural products using computational and tissue engineering approaches is addressed in the fifth section.

Contents
1 African Plants with Antiproliferative Properties
2 Anticancer Effects of Some Medicinal Thai Plants
3 Phytocompounds Targeting Cancer Angiogenesis Using the Chorioallantoic Membrane Assay
4 Chemical, Antioxidant, and Cytotoxic Properties of Native Blue Corn Extract
5 Lycopene: Multitargeted Applications in Cancer Therapy
6 Phytochemical Aspects and Therapeutic Perspective of Cannabinoids in Cancer Treatment
7 Endophytic Fungi as Alternative and Reliable Sources for Potent Anticancer Agents
8 Flavonoids: Promising Natural Products for Treatment of Skin Cancer (Melanoma)
9 An Update On Natural Compounds and Their Modern Formulations for the Management of Malignant Melanoma
10 Computational Studies and Biosynthesis of Natural Products with Promising Anticancer Properties
11 Towards Metabolic Engineering of Podophyllotoxin Production