Nutrition and cancer prevention
Subtitle: new insights into the role of phytochemicals
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 -- 492.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
Subjects: Cancer -- Chemoprevention -- Congresses; Cancer -- Diet therapy -- Congresses; Phytochemicals -- Therapeutic use -- Congresses; Functional foods -- Congresses; Cancer -- Chimioprévention -- Congrès; Cancer -- Diétothérapie -- Congrès; Composés phytochimiques -- Emploi en thérapeutique -- Congrès; Nutraceutiques -- Congrès; Neoplasms -- prevention & control -- Congresses; Diet, Vegetarian -- Congresses; Dietary Supplements -- Congresses; Nutrition -- Congresses; Plant Extracts -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Proceeding of the Ninth Annual Research Conference of the American Institute for Cancer Research,.... held September 2-3, 1999, in Washington, D.C."--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Soybeans and cancer prevention: a complex food and a complex disease; title: Dietary soy reduces colon carcinogenesis in humans and rats; title: Soy and risk of hormone-related and other cancers; title: Role of tomatoes, tomato products and lycopene in cancer prevention; title: Tea and tea polyphenols n cancer prevention; title: Effects of tea polyphenols on the signal transduction pathways; title: Mechanisms by which garlic and allyl sulfur compounds suppress carcinogen bioactivation; title: Antiproliferative effects of garlic-derived and other allium related compounds; title: Considering the mechanisms of cancer prevention by selenium; title: Selenium metabolism and mechanisms of cancer prevention; title: Apoptosis and angiogenesis in cancer prevention by selenium; title: Resveratrol inhibits the expression of cyclooxygenase-2 in mammary epithelial cells; title: The world of resveratrol; title: The effects of resveratrol on CYP1A1 expression and aryl hydrocarbon receptor function in vitro; title: Herbals and cancer; title: The role of dietary supplements in health; title: The beta-carotene story; title: Dietary intervention strategies: validity, execution and interpretation of outcomes; title: Nutrition and cancer prevention: new insights into the role of phytochemicals. Future directions; title: Chemoprevention: progress and opportunity.