Demographic attributes of the urban society have prompted a milestone shift towards structural aging of global population and increase of life expectancy, crucial to the prominence of cancer as one of the non-communicable diseases leading mortality. Currently, cancer diseases were accountable for about 9.6 million deaths in 2018, with concerning increasing projections of cancer incidence and mortality, by 2030, at a greater proportion in developing countries. As a result, there is an increasing trend of production and consumption of pharmaceuticals applied in cancer treatments. Once administered and metabolized, such drugs are excreted into waterways following to waste water treatment plants (WWTPs), ending up in freshwater and coastal ecos...