Guest Editor(s)

• Dr. Sanjay Gupta

  Carter Kissell Professor & Research Director, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.

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Special Issue Introduction

Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and is responsible for one in six mortalities. Furthermore, around 70% of cancer deaths in the last decade occurred in developing countries. Cancer treatments are extremely expensive and the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic drugs is limited. Consequently, treatment becomes unaffordable due to high cost, the ability to tolerate, and side-effects of these drugs resulting in increased suffering and mortality. However, around 30% of all cancer deaths could be prevented by a change in lifestyle and diet. It is well known that phytochemicals, derived from plants consumed as part of our diet, are powerful bioactive compounds and have an important role in cancer chemoprevention. In this special issue on "Phytochemicals and Cancer Chemoprevention" we will assemble articles on potential anticancer phytochemicals and agents, their molecular targets, and mechanisms of actions. Understanding the mechanism(s) of plant-derived agents against cancer will lead to a new dimension of drug invention and targets for successful intervention.

Participants

1. Herman Yeger  Program in Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada.
2. Md Afjalus Siraj  Department of Pharmaceutical Science, Daniel K. Inouye College of Pharmacy (DKICP), University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, USA.
3. Fumio Shimamoto  Faculty of Health Sciences, Hiroshima Shudo University, Hiroshima, Japan.
4. Grzegorz Grynkiewicz  Pharmaceutical Institute, Warsaw, Masovian District, Poland.
5. Qasim Alhadidi  Department of Medicinal and Biological Chemistry, Frederic and Mary Wolfe Center 292A, University of Toledo, Toledo, USA.
6. Robert Smith  Park University, Parkville, USA.
7. Zally Torres  Department of Chemistry, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
8. Ajay Bommareddy  Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nesbitt School of Pharmacy, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, USA.
9. Farrukh Aqil  Department of Medicine and JG Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville, Louisville, USA.
10. John M. Pezzuto  College of Pharmacy, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, USA.
11. Richard L Eckert  Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.
12. Maryam Foroozesh  Department of Chemistry, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans, USA.
13. Gary L Firestone  Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and The Cancer Research Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA.
14. Nagi B. Kumar  H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Inc., Cancer Epidemiology, MRC/CANCONT, Tampa, USA.
15. Mei Zhang  Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.
16. Randolph Arroo  Leicester School of Pharmacy, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester, UK.
17. Agustín Rascón-Chu  Biotechnology, Research Center for Food and Development (CIAD), Hermosillo, Mexico.
18. Nabiha Yusuf  Department of Dermatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA.
19. Farrukh Afaq  Department of Dermatology and Skin Diseases Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA.
The list is arranged in no particular order and being updated.

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Submission Deadline

Submission Information

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Submission Deadline: 31 Sep 2020
Contacts: Ivory Ma, Assistant Editor, ivory@jcmtjournal.com