Effects of Carbon Nanomaterials and Aloe vera on Melanomas-Where Are We? Recent Updates.

ABSTRACT: Melanoma is an aggressive skin cancer that affects approximately 140,000 people worldwide each year, with a high fatality rate. Available treatment modalities show limited efficacy in more severe cases. Hence, the search for new treatment modalities, including immunotherapies, for curing, mitigating, and/or preventing cancer is important and urgently needed. Carbon nanoparticles associated with some plant materials, such as Aloe vera, have shown appealing antineoplastic activity, derived mainly from the compounds aloin, aloe-emodin, barbaloin acemannan, and octapeptide, thus representing new possibilities as antitumor agents. This systematic review aims to arouse interest and present the possibilities of using Aloe vera combined with carbon-based nanomaterials as an antineopl

SUBMITTER: de Carvalho Lima EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9607275 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature