Anticancer activity of Giloe, Tinospora Cordifoila (Willd.) Miers Ex Hook F & Thoms

The word cancer spreads terror among the patients who are inflicted with the disease and also in the family members and their dear ones. It also drains the emotional and financial resources of the family or individual who suffers from the disease cancer. Due to changes in life style, increasing environmental pollution and use of state of art gadgets, especially for communication has also increased the incidence of cancer. The therapeutic aspect of cancer has undergone a phenomenal change and new state of the art technologies are being used to treat cancer. The recent analysis by NCI, USA shows an overall trend in decline in cancer mortality by 1.5% per annum especially during 2006–2015. The NCI estimates indicates an annual diagnosis of 1,735,350 new cases in United States alone and approximately 609,640 deaths during the year 2018.1 More than 700,000 cases of cancer are recorded in India and approximately 5,56,400 individuals die of the disease and this figure may increase by five times in the year 2025.2 The annual incidence of cancer may be much higher in this year globally, where the incidence of new cancer cases will increase up to 18.1 million out of which approximately 9.6 million will die of the disease.3