Effiacy of amygdalin (vitamin B17) as natural anti-tumor drug

10^th World Congress on Medicinal Chemistry and Drug Design

June 14-15, 2018 | Barcelona, Spain

Walaa Fikry Elbossaty

Damietta University, Egypt

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Med chem (Los Angeles)

Abstract :

Cancer is the disease type which may lead to death. There were different risk factors that increases the rate of cancer development, these factors may include genetic, inherited, environmental, and life important strategy in treatment of this disease; chemotherapy infusion has various side effects. The style factors. There were different strategies in the treatment of cancer. Chemotherapy is one of the new trends in treatment of cancer using natural chemotherapy. Most studies assume that vitamin B17 has ability to kill the malignant cell, to prevent it from spreading it to other organs and this help to control cancer, on the other hand healthy cells doesn't have effect with this therapy. Some researchers indicate vitamin B17 injection may be effective on healthy cells due to the toxic effect of cyanide which present is in composition of vitamin B17, also, they found toxic effects of vitamin B17 can be released if taken orally from its natural sources due to the action of gut bacteria.