Fig. 6From: Curcumin: a therapeutic strategy in cancers by inhibiting the canonical WNT/β-catenin pathwayBeneficial role of curcumin in cancer. (1) Curcumin reduces oxidative stress; (2) Curcumin reduces chronic inflammation; (3) Curcumin inhibits Akt pathway activity; (4) Curcumin downregulates WNT pathway and its target genes, inhibits Bcl-2 and activates GSK-3beta; (5) Curcumin inhibits NF-ϰB and COX-2Back to article page