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Cancer is one of the leading cause of death worldwide. There is urgent need to search for new drugs from
the natural products. In recent years remarkable progress has been made for the treatment of cancer. The
major drawback of the current methods of cancer treatment is the resistant to the therapies after initial
treatments. It has led to the increased use of anticancer drug developed from natural sources. The
biodiversity of snake venom is a unique source from which novel therapeutics can be developed. Snake
venoms toxins contributed significantly to the treatment of cancer. Some of the compounds found in snake
venom present a great potential as antitumor agent. In view of this, we presented the recent years of
research involving the active compounds of snake venoms that have anticancer activity.
Keywords- Anticancer agents, Apoptosis inducer, Cancer, Snake venom.