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Author:   Vincenzo Zappia ,  Salvatore Panico ,  Gian Luigi Russo ,  Alfredo Budillon
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Volume:   159
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   7.139kg
ISBN:  

9783662508862

ISBN 10:   3662508869
Pages:   460
Publication Date:   27 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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 inmelanoma prevention and therapy.- Concluding remarks.

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