Acknowledgements
Preface
Dedication
List of Contributors
Chapter 1: Principles of cancer pathogenesis and therapy: a brief overview
Rosane Borges Dias, Ludmila de Faro Valverde, Clarissa Araújo Gurgel Rocha and Daniel Pereira Bezerra
Chapter 2: Essential Oils Chemistry
Mónica Rocha Zuzarte and Lígia Maria Ribeiro Salgueiro
Chapter 3: Pharmacobotanical Aspects of Aromatic Plants
Ionaldo José Lima Diniz Basílio, Nathalia Diniz Araujo and Rafael Costa Silva
Chapter 4: Essential oils as Raw Materials in the Synthesis of Anticancer Drugs
Timothy John Brocksom, Kleber Thiago de Oliveira, Marco Antonio Barbosa Ferreira and Bruno Moraes Servilha
Chapter 5: Antitumor Essential Oils: Progress in Medicinal Chemistry
Sócrates Cabral de Holanda Cavalcanti, Rafael dos Reis Barreto de Oliveira and Damião Pergentino de Sousa
Chapter 6: Clinical Advances on Anticancer Essential Oils
Ammad Ahmad Farooqi, Rubina Sohail, Sundas Fayyaz, Iryna Shatynska-Mytsyk
Chapter 7: Antitumor Essential Oils
Hemerson Iury Ferreira Magalhães and Élida Batista Vieira de Sousa
Chapter 8: Antitumor Monoterpenes
Janaina Fernandes
Chapter 9: Sesquiterpenes from Essential Oils with Promising Antitumor Properties
Fayaz Malik and Suresh Kumar
Chapter 10: Antitumor Phenylpropanoids
Miriam Teresa Paz Lopes, Dalton Dittz Júnior and Fernanda de Oliveira Lemos
Chapter 11: Antitumor Essential Oils: Synergy and Chemotherapeutic Interactions
Rogerio Correa Peres, Carolina Foot Gomes de Moura, Flavia Andressa Pidone Ribeiro and Daniel Araki Ribeiro
Chapter 12: Dietary Essential Oils and Cancer chemopreventive potential
Thomas Prates Ong
Chapter 13: Cancer and aromatherapy: a view of how the use of essential oils applies to palliative care
Rita de Cássia da Silveira e Sá
Chapter 14: Perillyl Alcohol: A Pharmacotherapeutic Report
Clovis Orlando da Fonseca and Thereza Quirico-Santos
Chapter 15: Conclusion and Future Perspectives
Damião Pergentino de Sousa
About the Author: Damião Pergentino de Sousa is Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Federal University, Paraiba, Brazil. He received his Master's degree in Natural Products (Pharmacology and Chemistry) from the Federal University of Paraíba. He received his PhD (in Organic Chemistry) from the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. His current research is mainly focused on the medicinal chemistry studies applied to natural products and synthetic derivatives with potential therapeutic use. Professor de Sousa is a member of the editorial board and reviewer of several international journals with a broad range of scientific fields, such as natural products, organic synthesis, pharmacology, and biotechnology. He is also a consultant of funding agencies of scientific research and has scientific collaboration with several research groups throughout the world. He has published extensively in the field of natural products.
