Marine Natural Products As Anticancer Agents

Abstract

The marine environment remain an important source of compounds that possess anticancer activities and some other demonstrated activities likeantitumor, immunomodulation, anti-inflammatory, allergy, analgesia. The purpose of this article is to present different different compounds of anticancer agent which are derived from marine sources and present their structured part and different mode of action of all these different drugs. The drugs which are included in this article, some of them are in pre-clinical trials or clinical development and some are available in market such as Cytarabine and ET-743.