Resveratrol in Cancer Treatment with a Focus on Breast Cancer

Acute liver injury (ALI) is a critical and fatal disorder associated with excessive Alt-hough considerable advances have been made in the early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, it is still one of the major causes of global cancer-related death in women over the last several decades. Phytochemicals have been shown to be promising agents in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer. Resveratrol is an important plant-derived polyphenolic compound with a variety of potent biological activities. It has been suggested that resveratrol can be used to prevent and treat various types of cancer, including breast cancer. Resveratrol can affect nu-merous signaling pathways in vitro, leading to the induction of cell cycle arrest and apoptosis, suppression of proliferation, reduction of inflammatory responses, and the inhibition of angio-genesis and metastasis. Nevertheless, studies of resveratrol in animal models of breast cancer have so far been disappointing.