4. Anticancer Effects of Curcumin
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in human beings and
melanoma is most deadly form of skin cancer, which is notoriously
aggressive and chemoresistant to present therapies [61].
Cancer chemoprevention is defined as use of dietary or
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pharmacologic agents to inhibit or reverse the development of
cancer. Curcumin is known for its chemopreventive and anticarcinogenic
activity. It has been shown to induce autophagy
along with apoptosis in the treatment of melanoma, which
provides a nontoxic option for combinatorial chemotherapy
with significant potential [61].