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- Title
Diet and cancer prevention.
- Authors
McCullough, Marjorie L; Giovannucci, Edward L
- Abstract
Dietary effects are presumed to underlie many of the large international differences in incidence seen for most cancers. Apart from alcohol and a few micronutrients, however, the role of specific nutritional factors remains ill-defined. The evidence for a role of energy balance, physical inactivity, and obesity has strengthened, while for dietary fat it has weakened. Phytochemicals such as folate, lycopene and flavonoids are still the subject of active research. As the mechanisms underlying human carcinogenesis are better understood, dietary research will focus increasingly on intermediate markers such as the insulin-like growth factors and potentially carcinogenic metabolites.
- Publication
Oncogene, 2004, Vol 23, Issue 38, p6349
- ISSN
0950-9232
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/sj.onc.1207716