Colon cancer prevention
Subtitle: dietary modulation of cellular and molecular mechanisms
By: edited under the auspices of the American Institute for Cancer Research.
Contributors: American Institute for Cancer Research.; American Institute for Cancer Research. Conference
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology -- v. 470.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Colon (Anatomy) -- Cancer -- Prevention -- Congresses; Colon (Anatomy) -- Cancer -- Molecular aspects -- Congresses; Colon (Anatomy) -- Cancer -- Nutritional aspects -- Congresses; Diet therapy -- Congresses; Chemotherapy -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Research Conference of the American Institute for Cancer Research, held September 3-4, 1998, in Washington, D.C."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Transcriptional regulation in intestinal development: implications for colorectal cancer; title: Colonic cell proliferating, differentiation, and apoptosis; title: Defects in the regulation of Ý-catenin in colorectal cancer; title: Dietary lipids, inflammation, and colon cancer; title: Sulindac sulfone induced regression of rectal polyps in patients with familial adenomatous polyposis; title: Prevention of colon cancer and modulation of aberrant crypt foci, cell proliferation, and apoptosis by retinoids and NSAIDs; title: Digested fiber from wheat bran induces cdk inhibitors which block colon eithelial cells in G1; title: Mechanisms by which energy restriction inhibits carcinogenesis; title: Dietary intervention studies of colorectal cancer; title: The genetics of hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer and non-polypotic colon cancer; title: Familial association; title: Colonic cell proliferation and apoptosis in rodent species: modulation by diet; title: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), cyclooxygenases and the cell cycle: their interactions in colon cancer.