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1. Anticancer drugs Obtained
from plants
By Zoya ch.

2. Phytoestrogen :
A drug obtained from Plants
* Function as female sex hormone
* Usually use for treatment of Breast
Cancer
* diet contain Phytoestrogen
lower the risk of breast cancer
After Menopause

3. Structure:
Phytoestrogens mainly belong to a large
group of substituted natural phenolic
compounds:

4. Sources:
*Beans
*Peas
*Grains
*Spinach
*Carrot/Other vegetables
*Red Cloves
*Flax seed

5. Phytoestrogens exert their effects
primarily through binding to estrogen
receptors

6. Health effect:
Effect on male:
Neither soy foods nor isoflavone supplements alter
measures of bioavailable testosterone and sperm
concentrations in men.
Effect on female:
*Protected against breast cancer.
*Prevent photoaging in human skin.
*no harmful side effect.
*Acne

7. Asian women have lower risk of
BREAST CANCER

8. Triptolide:
• It is a traditional chicness medicine
• obtained as a purified extract from a
shrub like vine named
Tripterygium.
It is anti Tumour

9. * Prevent gastric cancer
Source:
*Obtained From roots of Chinese Herb
for example Thunder God Vine

10. Strucrure

11. effective in hindering the growth of
pancreatic, and ovarian cancers, among
others.
*Triptolide appears to work by halting
the production of RNA in cancerous cells,
meaning the cancer cannot spread.

12. Health Effect:
Side effects :
*Lose of bone density
*Hair loss
*Headache
*Menstrual changing
*Gastrointestinal issues like
*diarrhea, indigestion, and
*nausea