Advances in Purpurin 18 Research: On Cancer Therapy

How to make cancer treatment more efficient and enhance the patient’s outcome? By multimodal therapy, theranostics, or personalized medicine? These are questions asked by scientists doctors worldwide. However, finding new unique approaches options for as well selective therapeutics is very challenging. More frequently, researchers “go back in time” use already known well-described compounds/drugs, structure of which further derivatize “improve” their properties, extend existing drugs indications, even obtain a completely novel drug. Natural substances, especially marine products, great inspiration discovery development anticancer drugs. can be used many modern approaches, either photo- sonosensitizers photodynamic sonodynamic respectively, tumor imaging diagnosis. This review focused on potent natural product, chlorophyll metabolite purpurin 18, its derivatives, suitable all mentioned applications. Purpurin 18 easily isolated from green plants kinds ranging seaweed spinach leaves and, thus, it presents an economically feasible source promising