Medicinal Mushroom Substances as Cancer Molecular Therapy

Abstract

Medicinal mushrooms possess a variety of health promoting qualities as well as being a potential source of a variety of pharmaceuticals for some diseases, including cancer. Although most of the attention for their anticancer activity revolved around the activity of high-molecular-weight polysaccharides with no clear mechanism of action, our focus is on low-molecular-weight mushroom substances with a well-defined mechanism of action.