Advances in Nutrition and Cancer (eBook)

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.