Cancer and Nutrition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Nutrition and Human Cancer

   • John Higginson, Michael J. Sheridan

   Pages 1-50

3. Epidemiologic Approaches to the Study of Diet and Cancer

   • Graham A. Colditz, Walter C. Willett

   Pages 51-67

4. A Comparison of the Changes in Carbohydrate, Fat, and Protein Metabolism Occurring with Malignant and Benign Tumors and the Impact of Nutritional Support

   • Antonio C. L. Campos, Dan L. Waitzberg, Michael M. Meguid

   Pages 69-95

5. Carbohydrate and Cancer

   • Kenneth K. Carroll

   Pages 97-102

6. Dietary Protein and Cancer

   • Willard J. Visek, Stephen K. Clinton

   Pages 103-126

7. Fat and Cancer

   • David Kritchevsky, David M. Klurfeld

   Pages 127-140

8. Serum Cholesterol and Human Cancer

   • Anthony John McMichael

   Pages 141-158

9. Lipotropic Factors and Carcinogenesis

   • Paul M. Newberne, Adrianne E. Rogers

   Pages 159-185

10. The Effects of Caloric Restriction on Neoplasia and Age-Related Degenerative Processes

    • Bruce Ruggeri

    Pages 187-210

11. Dietary Fiber and Cancer

    • David Kritchevsky, David M. Klurfeld

    Pages 211-220

12. Chemoprevention by Nonnutrient Components of Vegetables and Fruits

    • Diane F. Birt, Edward Bresnick

    Pages 221-260

13. Vitamins and Cancer

    • Alfred H. Merrill Jr., Ann T. Foltz, Donald B. McCormick

    Pages 261-320

14. Interrelationships of Alcohol and Cancer

    • Adrianne E. Rogers, Michael W. Conner

    Pages 321-336

15. Back Matter

    Pages 337-491

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The role of nutrition in neoplasia has been of longstanding concern. The subject was addressed by investigators in the first decade of this century, but was dropped. Vigorous attention was paid to this area of oncology in the 1940s, primarily due to the efforts of Dr. A. Tannenbaum at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago and the group at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. However, interest waned again until the 1970s when the question of diet and cancer was addressed and it has since been at the forefront of cancer research. The present volume (7) of Human Nutrition: A Comprehensive Treatise summarizes current knowledge in the area of nutrition and cancer. The first chapter is an overview written by John Higginson, whose contribution to understanding of cancer and nutrition spans several decades. The next essays cover epidemiology and physiology. The ensuing chapters address, in tum, those dietary factors relating to nutrition and cancer, namely, carbohydrates, protein, fat, cholesterol, calories, lipotropics, fiber, fruits and vegetables, vitamins, and alcohol. In a field moving as rapidly as this one is now, we can expect to miss a few late-breaking developments, but generally, the literature has been well covered through some time in 1988. Work relating to the effects of diet on oncogenes is in its very early development and has not been addressed as an entity per se.

• Colon
• Nutrition
• Vitamin
• cancer
• carbohydrate
• dietary fiber
• metabolism

• Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA

  Roslyn B. Alfin-Slater

• The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, USA

  David Kritchevsky

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