Fighting cancer with triptolide

Naturally occurring anti-cancer compounds

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“My cancer is me. The tumours are made of me. They’re made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner” .

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

Triptolide is a natural constituent derived from the root of a plant (a vine) called Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. F. or