Overview
- This is a specialized book presenting the research evidence relevant to the use of specific diet therapy in cancer chemoprevention and treatment
- This book brings together international opinion leaders’ brilliant chapters and will contribute great to the cancer, academic, and clinical community by providing evidence-based information on the cancer chemoprevention and treatment effects by diet therapy
- Although written primarily for medical and scientific professionals, this book can be used as useful references to cancer patients and those who are interested in diet therapy for cancer
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Evidence-based Anticancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (ACAM, volume 5)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Cancer is one of the leading killers in the world and the incidence is increasing, but most cancer patients and cancer survivors suffer much from the disease and its conventional treatments’ side effects. In the past, clinical data showed that some complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) possessed anticancer abilities, but some clinicians and scientists have queried about the scientific validity of CAM due to the lack of scientific evidence. There is great demand in the knowledge gap to explore the scientific and evidence-based knowledge of CAM in the anticancer field. With this aim, a book series is needed to structurally deliver the knowledge to readers.
Throughout the past few years, the cancer chemopreventive potencies and treatment effects of a number of natural dietary agents present in different food sources have been evaluated by various experiments. Some of them have progressed to early clinical trials. This volume is a specialized book presenting the research evidence relevant to the use of specific diet therapy in cancer chemoprevention and treatment. We begin with lessons learned from dietary resveratrol as an effective agent with anticancer properties against malignancies, followed examples of flavonoids from fruits and vegetables in the prevention and treatment of cancer. Evidence for the beneficial influence of diet enriched with flax seed oil and green tea on cancer will be reviewed. Soy food intake may enhance the effects on anticancer treatment for breast cancer, whereas lycopene-rich foods may possess chemopreventive efficacy. There are also discussions on the contribution of the cancer preventive effects of the antioxidant-rich foods and Mediterranean diet. In addition, the modulation of proteasome pathways by nutraceuticals is highlighted. Finally, we close the book with a discussion on the attenuation of cell survival signaling by bioactive phytochemicals in the preventionand therapy cancer.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cancer Chemoprevention and Treatment by Diet Therapy
Editors: William C.S. Cho
Series Title: Evidence-based Anticancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6443-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6442-2Published: 15 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8467-2Published: 19 May 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6443-9Published: 08 July 2014
Series ISSN: 2211-0534
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0542
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 316
Topics: Biomedicine general, Complementary & Alternative Medicine, Oncology, Biotechnology, Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Cancer Research