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Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleBackground Breast cancer causes significant morbidity and mortality among women [1], and metastasis mainly affects out-come of the disease [2]. Lack of effective therapeutic strategies for control and treatment of breast cancers, and the huge financial burden placed on individuals and nations mean urgent action must be taken in the fight against breast cancer. Also, side effects due to conventional pharmacological agents have necessitated the search for newer therapies mostly in the form of natural products. In recent years, interest in natural products has grown, and in the light of long-term and safe cancer prevention, current approaches have been focused on the use of food and edible medicinal herbs as sources of products that could effect-ively control cancers [3-5]. This is evident by the fact that approximately 74 % of new anticancer compounds are ei-ther natural products or natural product-derived [6-9]. In fact, it has been argued that plants may be sources of mul-tiple bioactive compounds that could provide more benefit than single pharmacological agents against chronic diseases, and this may well be beneficical in managing breast cancer