Advances on Capsaicin Anti-cancer Activity and its Mechanism of Action

Capsaicin is the main active pungent ingredient in hot chilli peppers. In recent years, domestic and foreign researches show that capsaicin has good anti-cancer effects. Capsaicin can restrain the proliferation of cancer cell, promote its apoptosis and necrosis, inhibit cancer metastasis, increase the sensitivity of anti-cancer drugs and the body's immunity of cancer cells, ameliorate metabolic disturbances caused by cancer. So capsaicin has a great potential to become a new anti-cancer agent, as it can play anti-cancer effects by multi-approaches