Dietary fats, lipids, hormones, and tumorigenesis
Subtitle: new horizons in basic research
By: edited by David Heber and David Kritchevsky.
Contributors: Heber, David.; Kritchevsky, David, 1920-; Nutrition and Cancer Prevention Scientific Symposium (1994 : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology ;; v. 399; The language of science
Publisher: Plenum Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
Subjects: Cancer -- Nutritional aspects; Lipids in human nutrition; Fatty acids in human nutrition; Hormones -- Pathophysiology
Description: Reviews evidence that dietary fats, lipids, and hormones may play an important role in several common forms of cancer, in the hope that an improved understanding of these factors may lead to new strategies for prevention and treatment based on slowing the disease progression, and stimulate increased research into the link between nutrition and cancer. Among the topics are stromal- epithelial cell interactions in breast cancer, the metabolism of exogenous and endogenous arachidonic acid in cancer, lipid biomarkers of adherence to low fat diets, and nutritional approaches to the prevention of prostate cancer progression.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Proceedings based on the Nutrition and Cancer Prevention Scientific Symposium, sponsored by the UCLA/NCI Clinical Nutrition Unit, held November 14, 1994, in Los Anfgeles, California"--T.p. verso.