Meet the editor

Bassam Abdul Rasool Hassan, PhD, worked as a senior lecturer at the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaysia (2014–2017), and at the Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Teknologi MARA (2017–2019). He is currently working as a senior lecturer at the Department of Pharmacy, Al-Rafidain University College, Baghdad, Iraq.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Preface III**

Pharmacological Properties of Some Medicinal Plants **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 25**

**Chapter 3 37**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 83**

**Chapter 6 97**

**Chapter 7 111**

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Preface

Cancer has become one of the major causes of death in both developed and developing countries. This disease is a result of gene mutation, which causes deformation of normal cells. It is characterized by its ability to metastasize to other parts of the body. Although a large collection of effective chemotherapeutic agents has been discovered and developed over the last 50 years, advanced metastasized cancer is still untreatable. Besides, the usage of these treatments is found to cause many critical side effects. Therefore, the demand for new, safe, and effective treatments that can significantly prevent, delay, and/or cure cancer is growing. Many types of new therapies have emerged and some of them use extracts from plants that have shown very promising anticancer properties. Recently, some plants have been considered as good sources for new anticancer treatments due to their multiple chemical compounds. Many researchers have recommended that future studies should focus more on plants as a source of safe and effective anticancer treatments and to detect their active ingredients and mechanisms of action. Therefore, this book focuses on clarifying the anticancer effects (i.e., apoptotic, antiproliferative, antimetastatic, antiangiogenic) and mechanisms of most of the medicinal plants found in the

**Bassam Abdul Rasool Hassan, PhD**

Senior Lecturer,

Baghdad, Iraq

Department of Pharmacy, Al-Rafidain University College,

world against solid and/or hematological cancers.

*Chi Chiu Wang and Lu Li*
