Most current anticancer agents present lack of specificity, leading to systemic toxicity and adverse effects, and limiting the maximum dose of drug. Liposomes quickly passed from a simple scientific curiosity to “magic bullets” for the delivery of drugs. Liposomal formulations of anticancer drugs have been extensively evaluated, with notorious advances and the market introduction of some of the...

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Many heterocyclic cores are present in the structures of clinically approved anticancer drugs. Meanwhile, benzothiazoles have been reported as one of the most important heterocyclic scaffolds in previously reported anticancer agents in the literature. Therefore, in this report, a novel series of 2-phenyl benzothiazole derivatives was synthesized, bi...

An increasing number of cancer patients are using complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) in combination with their conventional chemotherapeutic treatment. Considering the narrow therapeutic window of oncolytic drugs, this CAM use increases the risk of clinically relevant herb-anticancer drug interactions. Such a relevant interaction is that of St. John's wort with the anticancer drugs i...

PURPOSE Surgical therapy is the primary treatment for oral cancer, but it can cause facial distortion. Therefore, if anticancer drugs are effective against oral cancer, they may be used preferentially. However, oral squamous carcinoma cells (OSCCs) are resistant to these drugs, so finding a way to enhance the sensitivity of these cells to anticancer drugs is important. The bacterial protein azu...

The generic anticancer drugs are developed in the field of anticancer therapy and are commercially available. Generally, the safety and efficacy of a brand anticancer drug are determined by phase 1, 2 and 3 clinical trials. In contrast, clinical trials are not necessarily required by guidelines for the development of generic drugs and are usually not performed. Pharmacokinetic equivalence is co...

Caspase-3(-like) proteases play important roles in controlling mammalian apoptosis. However, the downstream events from the caspase-3(-like) protease activation to death of cells are still unclear. Previously, we reported that hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) was generated by the activation of caspase-3(-like) proteases in the process of tyrosine kinase inhibitor-induced apoptosis in human small cell l...

The phenomenon of multidrug resistance (MDR) has attenuated the efficacy of anticancer drugs and the possibility of successful cancer chemotherapy. ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters play an essential role in mediating MDR in cancer cells by increasing efflux of drugs from cancer cells, hence reducing the intracellular accumulation of chemotherapeutic drugs. Interestingly, small-molecule t...