Nutrition and Cancer Prevention

Nutrition and Cancer Prevention brings together top experts in nutritive health who present significant evidence that specific dietary micronutrients have the potential to play a role in resisting cancer, modulating its development, or reducing tumor metastasis. The book updates the descriptive epidemiology of the major cancers of the Western world and discusses the likely mechanisms of action that occur when certain essential nutrients become diet staples. It contains chapters that explore the scientific evidence, looking at the various properties of each class of micronutrient, and chapters that explain the roles obesity and excessive alcohol consumption play in cancer development.