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EXPERT OPINION ON INVESTIGATIONAL DRUGS
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 57-67Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1517/13543780802594593
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anticancer drugs; apoptosis; curcumin; lymphoma
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Background: Emerging evidence suggests that natural plant ingredients have played an important role in the healthcare of many countries. Several of these natural plant products possess therapeutic potential for various diseases including cancer. Curcumin is the pigment of turmeric, a well-known chemopreventive agent that has been shown to suppress the proliferation of a wide variety of tumor cells, including lymphoma. Curcumin has been shown to have cancer chemopreventive potential against a variety of tumors via targeting key survival pathways that are aberrantly activated in cancer cells. Methods: This review discusses therapeutic potential of curcumin in malignancies of lymphoma as well as therapeutic implications of the recent advances in the field. Results/conclusion: Dietary-compound curcumin hardwires to multiple cellular processes. Suppression of cell proliferation, induction of apoptosis, and inhibition of metastasis are considered to be the major mechanisms underlying its anticancer properties.
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