Anticancer Activity of Essential Oils and Their Chemical Components - a Review

Overview

Journal Am J Cancer Res

Specialty Oncology

Date 2014 Dec 19

PMID 25520854

Citations 54

Authors

Bagora Bayala

Imael Hn Bassole

Riccardo Scifo

Charlemagne Gnoula

Laurent Morel

Jean-Marc A Lobaccaro

Jacques Simpore

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Abstract

Essential oils are widely used in pharmaceutical, sanitary, cosmetic, agriculture and food industries for their bactericidal, virucidal, fungicidal, antiparasitical and insecticidal properties. Their anticancer activity is well documented. Over a hundred essential oils from more than twenty plant families have been tested on more than twenty types of cancers in last past ten years. This review is focused on the activity of essential oils and their components on various types of cancers. For some of them the mechanisms involved in their anticancer activities have been carried out.

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