Adjunct therapeutic potential of phytochemicals against cancer

Abstract Cancer is a devastating disease which is responsible for the second major cause of death worldwide. The major factors associated with high death rate by cancer include late diagnosis, severe side effects of conventional anticancer drugs, and complex therapeutic procedures. In recent years, the use of phytochemicals has been exponentially increased in the field of cancer therapeutics because of its wide range of pharmacological values, promising therapeutic efficacy, low cost, and minimal side effects. The adjunct therapeutic potential of phytochemicals has also been tested in laboratory to clinics. Furthermore, the findings of several studies indicate the effective and promising adjunct therapeutic potential of phytochemicals against various cancers which informs the decision to utilize the phytochemicals as adjunct cancer therapeutic agents for designing the novel combinatorial cancer therapeutic approaches for the effective and safer treatment of cancer patients. This chapter is an attempt to discuss the potential adjunct therapeutic values of phytochemicals against cancer.