Table 5.

Plant extract-synthesized AgNPs with anti-cancer activity.

Cancer	Plant	AgNPs Size (nm)	AgNPs Shape	Cell Line	IC50 (μg/mL)	References
Breast cancer	Achillea biebersteinii	12	Spherical, pentagonal	MCF-7	20	[80]
	Melia dubia	7.3	Irregular		31.2	[110]
	Ulva lactuca	56	Spherical		37	[115]
Liver cancer	Cucumis prophetarum	30–50	Polymorphic shape (ellipsoidal, irregular)	HepG-2	94.2	[116]
Lung cancer	Rosa damascene	15–27	Spherical	A549	80	[117]
	Gossypium hirsutum	13–40	Spherical		40	[118]
	Syzygium aromaticum	5–20	Spherical		70	[111]
Cervical cancer	Podophyllum hexandrum	14	Spherical	HeLa	20	[112]
	Heliotropium indicum	80–120	Spherical	Siha	20	[119]
	Azadirachta indica	2–18	Triangular and hexagonal		≤4.25	[120]
Colon cancer	Gum arabic	1–30	Spherical	HT-29 Caco-2	1.55 1.26	[113]
Prostate cancer	Alternanthera sessilis	50–300	Spherical	PC-3	6.85	[26]
	Gracilaria edulis	55–99	Spherical	PC-3	53.99	[121]
	Dimocarpus longan	8–22	Spherical	VCaP	87.33	[114]