Nutrition and cancer prevention:new insights into the role of phytochemicals
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Corporate Authors: | ; |
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Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
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Publisher Address: | New York |
Publication Dates: | c2001. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Advances in experimental medicine and biology ; 492 |
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Carrier Form: | xii, 347 p.: ill. ; 26 cm. |
ISBN: | 0306465450 |
Index Number: | R730 |
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R730.1-532 R730.52-532 |
Call Number: | R730.1-532/N976/1999 |
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"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 |