Diet and Cancer: From Laboratory Models to Clinical Application

Diet and Cancer: From Laboratory Models to Clinical Application. By I. Zusman. 2013, pp. 376, ISBN: 978-81-7895-583-4. Transword Research Network, Kerala, India.

The purpose of this book is to discuss new experimental and statistical data reflecting the role of diet in the struggle against cancer.

Contents include 38 separate topics divided into five chapters: 1. Effects of diets in experimental cancer; 2. Some mechanisms governing cancer-preventive effects of diets; 3. Some mechanisms of cancer-preventive effects of diets: Biochemical aspects; 4. Tumor-preventive transplacental effects of diet; 5. Role of diets in human cancer.

This volume will be of interest to medical oncologists, dieticians and physicians involved in the treatment of cancer patients.