Artemisinin: How an antimalarial drug will alter the future of cancer Treatment

Abstract

As the intricate relationship between cancer and humans developed over time, the medical field has been on a constant search to find the cure to this pathology. Several options have been discovered, including surgery, radiotherapy, drugs that elimínate rapidly dividing cells, and even molecular therapies oriented at disrupting intricate signaling pathways. However, the current paradigm of most present therapies involves several adverse effects that hinder the continuation of the drug regimes or pose life threatening conditions to the patient, such as tumor lysis syndrome, fever, neutropenia and susceptibility to opportunistic infections, just to name a few [2].