Aristolochic acid-associated cancers: a public health risk in need of global action

• Main Authors: Das, Samrat, Thakur, Shefali, Korenjak, Michael, Sidorenko, Viktoriya S, Chung, Felicia Fei Lei *, Zavadil, Jiri
• Format: Article
• Published: Nature Research 2022
• Subjects: QK Botany; RC Internal medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.sunway.edu.my/3081/

Aristolochic acids (AAs) are a group of naturally occurring compounds present in many plant species of the Aristolochiaceae family. Exposure to AA is a significant risk factor for severe nephropathy, and urological and hepatobiliary cancers (among others) that are often recurrent and characterized b...