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Medicinal plants represent important sources of bioactive compounds (BACs) with anticancer and chemopreventive potential; however, their successful application is strongly influenced by extraction strategies that determine phytochemical recovery and downstream biological activity. This review evaluates solvent-based extraction techniques used to extract BACs from medicinal plants with reported anticancer properties, synthesizing peer-reviewed articles from PubMed and Google Scholar published between 2020 and 2025. Solvent-based methods, including Soxhlet and maceration, were most widely applied due to their operational simplicity and the preservation of structurally diverse metabolites while percolation, decoction, infusion, and hydro-distillation were sparsely utilized. Extraction strategy and solvent polarity emerged as primary factors shaping phytochemical profiles, with phenolics, flavonoids, alkaloids, and terpenoids identified as dominant classes. Reported half maximal inhibitory concentration (IC50) ranged from highly potent (0.12 \u00b5g\/mL) to weak (30,000 \u00b5g\/mL), reflecting variability driven by extraction parameters and plant matrix complexity. Anticancer mechanisms commonly involved apoptosis induction, cell-cycle arrest, reactive oxygen species-mediated cytotoxicity, and inhibition of proliferative signaling pathways across breast, cervical, colon, lung, liver, and prostate cancer models. Although solvent-based extraction approaches remain widely used, their context-dependent nature and lack of standardization limit reproducibility. Overall, anticancer and chemotherapeutic efficacy is primarily governed by BAC composition, while extraction methods act as upstream modulators. 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