TNF and cancer: The biological effects of herbal medicines in the treatment of cancer can be wide-ranging and include enhancing the body’s potential to fight cancer by increasing its ability to detoxify or clean itself, changing the way certain hormones and enzymes function, reducing the side effects and complications of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, and enhancing the body’s immune system function, such as enhancing the synthesis of cytokines (interferon, interleukin, colony-stimulating factor, tumor necrosis factor, etc.)[37].