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This study was conducted to assess the cytotoxic activity of the mycelial biomass of <jats:italic>Ganoderma weberianum-sichuanese<\/jats:italic> isolated from the Lower Volta River Basin of Ghana. The nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region was analyzed to determine the phylogenetic position of this native ganoderma isolate. We then tested its cytotoxic activity against the human carcinoma cell line PC-3 (human prostate), Jurkat (human T lymphoblastoid cell line), derived from an acute T cell leukemia, and PMDC05, a plasmacytoid dendritic cell (pDC) derived from acute leukemia using the 3-(4,5-dimethyl-2-thiazolyl)-2,5-diphenyl-2H-tetrazolium bromide (MTT) assay. The ITS phylogenetic analysis demonstrated that this native Ghanaian ganoderma isolate belongs to the <jats:italic>Ganoderma weberianum-sichuanese<\/jats:italic> species complex. Fractions of the mycelial biomass were found to inhibit significantly (\u2264 0.05%) the proliferation and survival of the three cancer cell lines, PC-3, PMDC05, and Jurkat with increasing concentrations and with IC<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub> values of 27.73\u2009\u00b1\u20095.25, 21.31\u2009\u00b1\u20092.40 and 17.09\u2009\u00b1\u20090.86 \u03bcg\/mL, respectively compared to Chang liver cells (CVCL_0238) with IC<jats:sub>50<\/jats:sub> value of 75.41\u2009\u00b1\u20091.95 \u03bcg\/mL. To the best of our knowledge, these findings demonstrated for the first time, that specific constituents of <jats:italic>Ganoderma weberianum-sichuanese<\/jats:italic> are selectively cytotoxic to the three human cancer cell lines, suggesting their potential efficacy in the treatment of malignancies. 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