In the survey, an ethnobotanical inventory was carried out to study the plant families, species and parts of plants used as remedy for cancer. The result showed that a total of 76 plant species from 47 families mostly of the Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae, Dioscoraceae and Zingiberaceae The commonest plant species identified include; Ricans communis L (Castor bean), Manihot esculenta Crantz (Cassava), Tetrapleura tetraptera Scum & Thonn (African yellow wood), Curcuma longa L (Tumeric), Zingiber officinale Roscoe (Ginger) and Xylopia aethiopica (Dunal) A. Rich (African pepper). All the plants studied in this survey have been used by the herbal practitioners and adjudged to be effective. Despite the inventory, more research is needed in the extraction and isolation of active chemical constituents in these medicinal plants for drug formulation and other vital pharmaceutical purposes.