Exploring natural plant products as an option to find new chemical entities as anticancer
agents is one of the fastest growing areas of research. Recently, in the last decade, essential …

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, affecting millions of people each
year. Fortunately, the last decades have been marked by considerable advances in the field …

Essential oils are secondary metabolites with a key‐role in plants protection, consisting
primarily of terpenes with a volatile nature and a diverse array of chemical structures …

Many studies have shown that a large number of terpenoids and aromatic compounds
contained in essential oils have significant anticancer activities, both on cell lines and on …

Cancer retains a central place in fatality rates among the wide variety of diseases known
world over, and the conventional synthetic medicaments, albeit used until now, produce …

Natural essential oil constituents play an important role in cancer prevention and treatment.
Essential oil constituents from aromatic herbs and dietary plants include monoterpenes …

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most revalent type of cancer in the world and the
second most common cause of cancer death (about 1 million per year). Historically, natural …

Monoterpenes are a group of natural products that have been widely studied due to their
therapeutic potential against various pathologies. These compounds are abundant in the …

Essential oils are complex mixtures of several components endowed with a wide range of
biological activities, including antiseptic, anti‐inflammatory, spasmolytic, sedative, analgesic …

Essential oils are widely used in pharmaceutical, sanitary, cosmetic, agriculture and food
industries for their bactericidal, virucidal, fungicidal, antiparasitical and insecticidal …