Raipur, March 6 -- A plant-based, effective, cost-efficient and zero side-effect medicine will soon be available in the market for the treatment of oral cancer as the professor and research scholar of Pt Ravishankar Shukla University (PRSU) in Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur are conducting extensive research in this direction.

There are several types of cancer, and we are working on the direction to target cancer, said Keshav Kant Sahu, Head of the Biotechnology Department in PRSU.

He further explained that chemotherapy and medicines are being used in the treatment of oral cancer, but these methods are not target treatment. These methods kill cancer cells and simultaneously damage nearby cells as well as make a negative impact on metaboli...