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Our previous studies and those of others on Chinese medicinal herbs and miRNAs in various cancer models have provided a possibility of new cancer therapies, for example, up-regulating the expression of miR-23a may activate the positive regulatory network of p53 and miR-23a involved in the mechanism underlying the anti-tumor effect of berberine in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In this review, we survey the role of Chinese medicinal herbal products in regulating miRNAs in cancer and the use of mediating miRNAs for cancer treatment. In addition, the controversial roles of herb-derived exogenous miRNAs in cancer treatment are also discussed. It is expected that targeting miRNAs would provide a novel therapeutic approach in cancer therapy by improving overall response and survival outcomes in cancer treatment, especially when combined with conventional therapeutics and Chinese medicinal herbal products.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/cancers7030855","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,8,25]],"date-time":"2015-08-25T02:34:23Z","timestamp":1440470063000},"page":"1643-1657","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":56,"title":["MicroRNAs and Chinese Medicinal Herbs: New Possibilities in Cancer Therapy"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Ming","family":"Hong","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chinese Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ning","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chinese Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Hor","family":"Tan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chinese Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sai-Wah","family":"Tsao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomy, Li KaShing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Yibin","family":"Feng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Chinese Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,8,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"883","DOI":"10.3390\/cells3030883","article-title":"Non-coding RNAs including miRNAs and lncRNAs in cardiovascular biology and disease","volume":"3","author":"Kataoka","year":"2014","journal-title":"Cells"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"286","DOI":"10.1016\/j.biocel.2014.08.006","article-title":"Non-coding RNAs: A novel level of genome complexity","volume":"54","author":"Kargul","year":"2014","journal-title":"Int. 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