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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300071903321

Titolo

Advances in Nutrition and Cancer / / edited by Vincenzo Zappia, Salvatore Panico, Gian Luigi Russo, Alfredo Budillon, Fulvio Della Ragione

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-642-38007-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (450 p.)

Collana

Cancer Treatment and Research, , 2509-8497 ; ; 159

Disciplina

616.99

616.99/4071

616.994071

Soggetti

Oncology

Medicine, Preventive

Health promotion

Epidemiology

Medicine - Research

Biology - Research

Medical genetics

Diseases

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Biomedical Research

Medical Genetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: Life Style, Diet and Cancer: The role of metabolic carcinogenesis in cancer causation and prevention: evidence from the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition -- Obesity, energy balance and cancer: a mechanistic perspective -- Fruits and vegetables. Updating the epidemiologic evidence for the WCRF-AICR lifestyle recommendations for cancer prevention -- The diet as a cause of human prostate cancer -- Mediterranean dietary pattern and chronic diseases -- Dietary salt intake and risk of gastric cancer -- Alcoholic



beverages and carbonated soft drinks: consumption and gastrointestinal cancer risks -- Part II: Natural Dietary Molecules: Anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer drugs from nature -- Selenium and cancer: a story that should not be forgotten – Insights from genomics -- Resveratrol: from basic studies to bedside -- Quercetin: a pleiotropic kinase inhibitor against cancer -- Sulforaphane as a promising molecule for fighting cancer -- Part III: Genetics and Epigenetics: Functions, aberrations and advances for chromatin modulation in cancer -- Epigenetics and epidemiology: models of study and examples -- Dietary epigenetics in cancer and aging -- Breast cancer and the importance of early life nutrition -- Part IV: Olive Oil in Cancer Prevention -- Olive oil and other dietary lipids in breast cancer -- A holistic approach to study the effects of natural antioxidants on inflammation and liver cancer -- Extra virgin olive oil: from composition to ‘molecular  fastronomy’ -- Part V: Life Style Prevention of Cancer: Life style prevention of cancer recurrence: the yin and the yang -- Part VI: Emerging Breakthroughs: New perspective for an old antidiabetic drug: metformin as anticancer agent -- Gut microbes, diet and cancer -- Inflammatory angiogenesis and the tumor microenvironment as targets for cancer therapy and prevention -- Nutriomes and personalised nutrition for DNA damage prevention, telomere integrity maintenance and cancer growth control -- Novel approaches in melanoma prevention and therapy -- Concluding remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

This book comprises proceedings from the Third International Conference on Advances in Nutrition and Cancer, held in Naples in May 2012.  This highly multidisciplinary meeting analyzed “nutrition and cancer” from different perspectives and on the basis of distinct and up-to-date experimental approaches.   Knowledge on the relation between lifestyle, diet, and cancer is explored in a number of contributions, and the role of dietary intervention in cancer patients is discussed. Issues of vital interest to the research community, such as epidemiological and experimental oncology (genetics, epigenetics, and the mechanisms of action of natural compounds in the diet), receive detailed consideration. A further key topic is the emerging molecular technologies (the “omics”) that can cast light on the interplay between nutrition and human malignancies. Chapters take the form of reviews that include sections presenting expert opinions. Advances in Nutrition and Cancer will be an invaluable source of topical information for all researchers and clinicians with an interest in this field.