At least two third of them get pain, vomiting, dysponea, fungating wounds and host of other symptoms add to their misery. In additional social, financial, emotional and spiritual factors compound their problem. They need pain relief and palliative care. Surviving and living longer is not an ultimate aim for most of the cancer patients. They need to be made comfortable to carry out everyday activity without physical fuse and emotional fissure therefore, they must be rehabilitated, made aware and thought how to improve strength, endurance and ability to overcome and compensate for certain neurological, muscular and psychological deficits.
Plants are sophisticated organisms consisting of thousands of organic compounds.
Several new plant derived natural products have proved to be of extreme interest in the treatment of cancer. In radiotherapy radiation particles are aimed at the tumor to cause damage in the cells of the tumor. However, because of the location of the tumor, it is impossible to avoid some damage to the normal cells that are in the path of radiation beam. The overall objective of this study is to compare the efficacy of radiotherapy plus herbal therapy in previously untreated oral cavity and cervical cancer. Important efficacy endpoints will be objective tumor response rate, duration of response, proportion of patient with early progressive disease or early response-stable disease.