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**Chapter 9**

**Abstract**

*Bassam Hassan*

**1. Cancer background**

quality of life [3–6].

**2. Chemotherapy background**

Plants and Cancer Treatment

plant as a source for safe and effective anticancer treatment.

**Keywords:** cancer, plants, anti-growth, apoptosis, treatment

In this century, cancer has become one of the major problems and diseases that have caused predominant death, and it will even surpass heart diseases. Since World War I, chemotherapy has become as one of the most important and significant treatments of cancer. Even if it can cure cancer, it is found to cause several critical side effects. Over the past 20 years, many types of new therapies have emerged; some of them were extracted from plants that are found to be effective and safe. Moreover, it has been approved that several plants, herbs, and vegetables can prevent or reduce incidence of cancer in several sites of the human body. Besides, researchers found that they are a great source for developing and producing new, effective, tolerable, and safe anticancer drugs compared with the synthetic ones. As a result of that, researchers recommended future studies to focus more on

During this century, cancer has become one of the major problems and diseases which has caused predominant death, and it will even surpass heart diseases. Many of the researchers begin to use the term lifetime risk for cancer patients which refer to the time that cancer will progress and developed or the time that the patient will die because of cancer. Cancer does not represent only one disease but it is a group involving about 100 diseases. It is characterized by two things: Firstly there is no control for the growth of cancer cells, and secondly it is the ability of the cancer cells to metastasize and migrate from the original site to different parts of the body. There are two types of tumors which are malignant and benign. Cancer can attack any person, and its occurrence increases as the age of the individual increases too [1, 2]. There are many problems (i.e., side effects) associated with cancer diseases either solid or hematological cancer such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, hypercalcemia, pain, loss of appetite, anemia, fatigue, cachexia, leucopenia, neutropenia, and thrombocytopenia. However the major problems are nausea and vomiting, neutropenia, anemia, thrombocytopenia, and hypercalcemia. Hence due to these reasons, cancer is considered as one of the major diseases that will affect the

Chemotherapy was developed and used since the Word War I from the chemical weapon program of the United States of America (USA). Since then chemotherapy

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