Lung cancer is the most common and fatal cancer. In 2020, there were more than 2 million new lung cancer cases and 1.79 million deaths worldwide. The latest research pointed out that berberine, an active ingredient extracted from the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Coptis chinensis, has anti-cancer effects.
The research team converted them into berberine-phytantriol-loaded liquid crystalline nanoparticles (BP-LCN), and it is hoped to become a treatment for lung cancer.
The findings were published in the medical journal Pharmaceutics.
Lung cancer can be divided into different types, and the most common one is non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), accounting for 85 percent of all lung cancer cases, and it is also the type of lung cancer in this study….