Anticancer activity of Helicia nilagirica bedd in mice transplanted with Dalton’s lymphoma

Cancer is a multifactorial disease which gives rise to the formation of rapidly dividing abnormal cells that grow beyond their usual boundaries, and invade adjoining tissues of the body by spreading into other organs through the process of metastases. It is the second leading cause of mortality worldwide. The cancer incidence has been increasing at an alarming rate and with modern diagnostic techniques more cancer cases are coming to light than ever before. In India usually 700,000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually and the figure is suspected to increase by five folds in the year 2025.1 It is expected that 1,688,780 new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed out of which approximately 600,920 patients of cancer would have succumbed to death in the year 2017 in the United states alone.2