Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world after cardiovascular diseases. Cancer is not a new disease and has afflicted people throughout the world. The word cancer came from a Greek words karkinos to describe carcinoma tumors by a physician Hippocrates (460–370 B.C), but he was not the first to discover this disease. 0rthodox, non-surgical approaches, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, have variable results, but many adverse affects that limit their use. These are sometimes the direct cause of death. More patients are choosing alternative treatments, mainly the homeopathic. Homeopathy does not have highly effective remedies for cancer in its literature, and has been limited to palliating the adverse effects of chemo/radiotherapy. Some studies shows that apoptotic effects and modulation of gene expression of homoeopathic medicines in cancer while other studies nullify this mechanism. Further researches are needed to generate antitumour or antimetastatic potential of homeopathic medicines.
Keywords: Cancer, antitumour, antimetastatic, chemotherapy , radiotherapy.

Received: 14 December  2018                                  Revised: 27 December 2018                          Accepted: 28 December 2018
Corresponding author: Dr. Charanjeet Singh, PG Scholar, Former President, Homoeopathy University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

This article may be cited as: Singh C, Bhinda K. C., Kumar P. Role of Homoeopathy in Cancer . Int J Res Health Allied Sci 2019; 5(1):32-34.