PLANTS-THE NEXT GENERATION TREATMENT OF LEUKEMIA

Discovery of the medicine or drug is time consuming and labour intensive process. Natural products have vast chemical diversity and it has ability to act on various biological systems. Plants and its products are the important elements in the plant medicine system. Many of the plant extracts currently used in the treatment of cancer therapy and those agents were also isolated from plants. Here the main objective of this review is to introduce the plants and its products used in the treatment of the leukemia effectively.

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