Investigation of Vietnamese plants for potential anticancer

Higher plants continue to afford human- kind with many new drugs, for a variety of disease types. In this review, recent phytochemical and biological progress is presented for part of a collab- orative multi-institutional project directed towards the discovery of new antitumor agents. The specific focus is on bioactive natural products isolated and charac- terized structurally from tropical plants collected in Vietnam. The plant collection, identification, and processing steps are described, and the natural products isolated from these species are summarized with their biological activities.