Nutrition and cancer prevention:new insights into the role of phytochemicals

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: American Institute for Cancer Research. Conference 1999 Washington, D.C.); American Institute for Cancer Research
Published: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2001.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; 492
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xii, 347 p.: ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN: 0306465450
Index Number: R730
CLC: R730.1-532
R730.52-532
Call Number: R730.1-532/N976/1999
Contents: "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.
Soybeans and cancer prevention: a complex food and a complex disease -- Dietary soy reduces colon carcinogenesis in humans and rats -- Soy and risk of hormone-related and other cancers -- Role of tomatoes, tomato products and lycopene in cancer prevention -- Tea and tea polyphenols n cancer prevention -- Effects of tea polyphenols on the signal transduction pathways -- Mechanisms by which garlic and allyl sulfur compounds suppress carcinogen bioactivation -- Antiproliferative effects of garlic-derived and other allium related compounds -- Considering the mechanisms of cancer prevention by se