Nutrition and Cancer Prevention presents significant evidence that specific dietary micronutrients have the potential to play a role in resisting cancer.

Features:

• Provides the very latest information on this emerging area of nutrition
• Offers examples of bioactive food sources rich in each type of anti-carcinogenic nutritional component
• Presents supportive evidence including epidemiological, experimental, and clinical studies that point to the potential mechanisms by which specific dietary components may offer protection
• Points to directions for future research relevant to each class of components, offering extensive references for further inquiry

Contents

• Epidemiology of Breast, Prostate, and Colon Cancers
• How Dietary Components Protect from Cancer
• Dietary Components That Protect from Cancer: Vitamins,Vitamin A, ß-Carotene, and Cancer
• Anticarcinogenic Activity of Natural and Synthetic Carotenoids
• Vitamin D and the Risk of Cancer
• Vitamin E Analogs as Anticancer Agents
• Vitamin C Blocks Carcinogenic Tumor Formation
• Folic Acid, Folates, and Cancer
• Dietary Components That Protect from Cancer: Minerals, Calcium and Chemoprevention of Colon Cancer
• Relationship of Selenium Intake to Cancer
• Dietary Components That Protect from Cancer: Phytosterols
• Phytosterols: Sources and Metabolism
• Phytosterols: Bioactivity on Cancer
• Dietary Components That Protect from Cancer: Polyphenols
• Classification, Dietary Sources, Absorption, Bioavailability, and Metabolism of Flavonoids
• Isoflavones, Soybean Phytoestrogens, and Cancer
• Implications of Flavonoids as a Sex Hormone Source
• Flavonoids as Inhibitors of Tumor Metastasis
• Catechins and Inhibitory Activity against Carcinogenesis
• Cancer Chemoprotective Activity of Stilbenes: Resveratrol
• Flaxseed and Lignans: Effects on Breast Cancer
• Anthocyanins and Cancer Prevention
• Dietary Components That Protect from Cancer: Isothiocyanates
• Isothiocyanates and Cancer Prevention
• Dietary Components That Protect from Cancer: Saponins Anticancer Activity of Ginseng and Soy Saponins
• Dietary Components That Protect Cancer: Specialized Lipids
• Omega-3 Fatty Acids and Cancer Prevention
• Conjugated Linoleic Acid and Cancer
• Sphingolipids as Chemopreventive Agents
• Dietary Cancer Risk Factors
• Obesity as a Cancer Risk Factor: Epidemiology
• Obesity as a Cancer Risk Factor: Potential Mechanisms of Action
• Alcohol and Cancer: Cellular Mechanisms of Action

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