VEGFA and cancer: 2016). Compounds such as taxol, camptothecin and combretastatin have been reported to have potent anti-angiogenic properties (Fan et al. 2006). Further, anti-angiogenic effects through inhibition of VEGF signalling have been reported from dietary functional foods such as genistein from soybean, epigallocatechin gallate from green tea, and resveratrol from red grapes. With respect to cancer therapy, a number of important new commercialized drugs have been synthesized, by structural modification of natural compounds (Gordaliza 2007).