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ABSTRACT
Globally cancer is one of the common non communicable diseases and one third of it is preventable while another one third are potentially curable if diagnosed early and the remaining one third of cases are incurable but treated with pallitative care in order to improve the quality of life. Cancer (malignant neoplasm) was described as a class of disease in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth i.e. division beyond the normal limits, invasion i.e. intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues and metastasis i.e. spread to other locations in the body via lymph or blood. Breast cancer in the African continent was characterized by regional variation as the incidence was 27% of cancers in north African countries compared with 15% in sub-saharan Africa. Adenocarcinoma makes up over 90% of malignancies arising in the large bowel. Rare tumours, such as carcinoid, lymphoma, melanoma and gastrointestinal stromal tumours, may also occur. The increased consumption of fruits and vegetables by up to five servings or more has shown a reduced risk of 50% of developing a wide variety of cancer types. Turmeric has a lot of molecular constituents each with a variety of biological activities. In its raw state, turmeric is only 3-5% curcuminiods, the main chemical components are Curcumin 60%, Demethoxycurcumin, Monodemthoxycurcumin, Bisdemethoxycurcumin, Dihydrocurcumin and Cyclocurcumin. Extracts of turmeric has been shown to be effective in inducing apotosis also known as programmed cell death in human myeloid leukaemia cells. Red beet is one of the most potent vegetables with respect to antioxidant activity. Beet root is a potential source of valuable water soluble nitrogenous pigments called betalains which comprises two main groups the red betacyanins (red- violet pigments) and the yellow betaxanthains (yellow-orange pigments). Beet root methanolic extract has also been shown to have immunodulatory and antiproliferative effects in vitro. Antimicrobial studies conducted on the methanolic and aqueous extracts at concentration 1000mg/ml, 5000mg/ml 250mg/ml and 125mg/ml showed that bacterial were susceptible to the extracts in both methanolic and aqueous extracts. At concentration of 0.5mg/ml the beets had 81%, turmeric 93.78% and synergistic extract 87.26% DPPH activity.
