Radio Protective Potential of Medicinally Important Indian Bamboo Plants against Cancer

Exploring the cancer-fighting properties of Indian bamboo plants

Abstract

Cancer, the feared non-communicable disease, contributes to total deaths worldwide by a staggering 16 percent. Despite the huge developments in medical research, cancer continues to pose an impregnable threat for global health care systems with its massive economic burden increasing to around 1.16 trillion. In reality, plant-based cancer prevention therapy is largely considered safe because it prevents the side effects normally associated with other forms of cancer treatment such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy, etc. Bamboo shoots, the bamboo plant's highly palatable juvenile culms that have proven nutritional credentials, have rich repositories of several phytochemicals such as phenolic compounds, dietary fibres, phytosterols, and several other functional groups known to have anti-cancer properties.