Advances in Nutrition and Cancer

Part I. Life Style, Diet and Cancer

1. The Role of Metabolic Carcinogenesis in Cancer Causation and Prevention: Evidence from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition
Elio Riboli

2. Obesity, Energy Balance, and Cancer: A Mechanistic Perspective
Stephen D. Hursting

3. Fruits and Vegetables: Updating the Epidemiologic Evidence for the WCRF/AICR Lifestyle Recommendations for Cancer Prevention
Teresa Norat, Dagfinn Aune, Doris Chan, Dora Romaguera

4. The Diet as a Cause of Human Prostate Cancer
William G. Nelson, Angelo M. DeMarzo, Srinivasan Yegnasubramanian

5. Mediterranean Dietary Pattern and Chronic Diseases
Salvatore Panico, Amalia Mattiello, Camilla Panico, Paolo Chiodini

6. Dietary Salt Intake and Risk of Gastric Cancer
Lanfranco D’Elia, Ferruccio Galletti, Pasquale Strazzullo

7. Alcoholic Beverages and Carbonated Soft Drinks: Consumption and Gastrointestinal Cancer Risks
Rosario Cuomo, Paolo Andreozzi, Francesco Paolo Zito

Part II. Natural Dietary Molecules

8. Anti-Inflammatory and Anticancer Drugs from Nature
Barbora Orlikova, Noémie Legrand, Jana Panning, Mario Dicato, Marc Diederich

9. Selenium and Cancer: A Story that Should not be Forgotten-Insights from Genomics
Catherine Méplan, John Hesketh

10. Resveratrol: From Basic Studies to Bedside
Adriana Borriello, Debora Bencivenga, Ilaria Caldarelli, Annunziata Tramontano, Alessia Borgia, Vincenzo Zappia, Fulvio Della Ragione

11. Quercetin: A Pleiotropic Kinase Inhibitor Against Cancer
Gian Luigi Russo, Maria Russo, Carmela Spagnuolo, Idolo Tedesco, Stefania Bilotto, Roberta Iannitti, Rosanna Palumbo

12. Sulforaphane as a Promising Molecule for Fighting Cancer
Monia Lenzi, Carmela Fimognari, Patrizia Hrelia

Part III. Genetics and Epigenetics

13. Functions, Aberrations, and Advances for Chromatin Modulation in Cancer
Mariarosaria Conte, Lucia Altucci

14. Epigenetics and Epidemiology: Models of Study and Examples
Karin Veldhoven, Shati Rahman, Paolo Vineis

15. Dietary Epigenetics in Cancer and Aging
Trygve O. Tollefsbol

16. Breast Cancer and the Importance of Early Life Nutrition
Karen A. Lillycrop, Graham C. Burdge

Part IV. Olive Oil in Cancer Prevention

17. Olive Oil and Other Dietary Lipids in Breast Cancer
Eduard Escrich, Montserrat Solanas, Raquel Moral

18. A Holistic Approach to Study the Effects of Natural Antioxidants on Inflammation and Liver Cancer
Susan Costantini, Giovanni Colonna, Giuseppe Castello

19. Extra Virgin Olive Oil: From Composition to “Molecular Gastronomy”
Raffaele Sacchi, Antonello Paduano, Maria Savarese, Paola Vitaglione, Vincenzo Fogliano

Part V. Life Style Prevention of Cancer

20. Life Style Prevention of Cancer Recurrence: The Yin and the Yang
Franco Berrino

Part VI. Emerging Breakthroughs

21. New Perspective for an Old Antidiabetic Drug: Metformin as Anticancer Agent
Alessandra Leone, Elena Di Gennaro, Francesca Bruzzese, Antonio Avallone, Alfredo Budillon

22. Gut Microbes, Diet, and Cancer
Meredith A. J. Hullar, Andrea N. Burnett-Hartman, Johanna W. Lampe

23. Inflammatory Angiogenesis and the Tumor Microenvironment as Targets for Cancer Therapy and Prevention
Antonino Bruno, Arianna Pagani, Elena Magnani, Teresa Rossi, Douglas M. Noonan, Anna Rita Cantelmo, Adriana Albini

24. Nutriomes and Personalised Nutrition for DNA Damage Prevention, Telomere Integrity Maintenance and Cancer Growth Control
Michael F. Fenech

25. Novel Approaches in Melanoma Prevention and Therapy
Antonio M. Grimaldi, Pamela B. Cassidy, Sancy Leachmann, Paolo A. Ascierto

26. Concluding Remarks
Rodolfo Saracci

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Oncology, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Epidemiology, Biomedicine general, Human Genetics, Metabolic Diseases