ReviewEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM2018
Anticancer Properties of Essential Oils and Other Natural Products.
Review in Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 92 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
92 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 282 citations in OpenAlex.
- Essential Oils as a Source of Anticancer Molecules: Critical Assessment of Current Evidence and Methodological Limitations-A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Pooled it
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- Selective Cytotoxic and Antiproliferative Effects of Extracts from Four Mexican Medicinal Plants in Human Cancer and Non-Cancerous Cell Lines.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Natural product derived phytochemicals as modulators of cancer stemness and drug resistance.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Review
- Phytochemical Profiling, Molecular Docking, and ER Stress-Mediated Apoptosis Induced by Plantago loeflingii L. Essential Oil in Ovarian Adenocarcinoma Cells.Chemistry & biodiversity · 2026Article
- Antifungal Efficacy of Selected Plant Essential Oils Against Clinical Canine IsolatesMicroorganisms · 2025Article
- Clinical Potential of Essential Oils: Cytotoxicity, Selectivity Index, and Efficacy for Combating Gram-Positive ESKAPE Pathogens.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Antioxidant and Antifungal Effects of Six Plant Essential Oils AgainstMicroorganisms · 2025Article
- In Silico and In Vitro Evaluation of δ-cadinene fromCancers · 2025Article
- Cytotoxic Effects ofLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Anticancer Potential ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Dimethyl Sulfate as Methylation Agent and Solvent in Highly Regioselective Synthesis of Methyl Salicylate Using Sodium Bicarbonate as a Base.ACS omega · 2025Article
- Phytochemical Analysis and In Vivo Anticancer Effect ofNutrients · 2025Article
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- Evaluation of Bioactivity of Essential Oils: Cytotoxic/Genotoxic Effects on Colorectal Cancer Cell Lines, Antibacterial Activity, and Survival of Lactic Acid Bacteria.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Exploring Natural Deep Eutectic Solvents (NADES) for Enhanced Essential Oil Extraction: Current Insights and Applications.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Selective cytotoxicity ofFrontiers in pharmacology · 2025Article
- Current Progress and Emerging Role of Essential Oils in Drug Delivery Therapeutics.Current drug delivery · 2025Review
32 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
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Abstract
Essential oils are secondary metabolites with a key-role in plants protection, consisting primarily of terpenes with a volatile nature and a diverse array of chemical structures. Essential oils exhibit a wide range of bioactivities, especially antimicrobial activity, and have long been utilized for treating various human ailments and diseases. Cancer cell prevention and cytotoxicity are exhibited through a wide range of mechanisms of action, with more recent research focusing on synergistic and antagonistic activity between specific essential oils major and minor components. Essential oils have been shown to possess cancer cell targeting activity and are able to increase the efficacy of commonly used chemotherapy drugs including paclitaxel and docetaxel, having also shown proimmune functions when administered to the cancer patient. The present review represents a state-of-the-art review of the research behind the application of EOs as anticancer agents both
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