Research progress on mechanisms of monomer ingredients of Chinese materia medica anti-tumor invasion and metastasis / 药物评价研究

ABSTRACT

As the essential characteristics of malignant cancer,invasion and metastasis are the main reason for failure treatment and high death rate of cancer patients.It is necessary to find out safe and effective anti-invasion and anti-metastasis drugs for the improvement of clinical efficacy.With the definite therapeutic effect and mild side-effects,Chinese materia medica(CMM) including curcumin,peiminine,β-elemi and so on,have become hotspots in anti-invasion and anti-metastasis drugs research.The mechanisms for the effective ingredients of CMM anti-tumor invasion and metastasis were reviewed in this paper.