Nutrition, Diet and Cancer

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shankar, Sharmila (Editor), Srivastava, Rakesh K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cancer research.; Nutrition.; Biomedicine.; Biomedicine general.; Cancer Research.

Chemoprevention of cancer has been the focus of intensive research for more than two decades. Epidemiological evidence has shown a small, but significant association between fruit and vegetable intake and a reduction in cancer risk.  Diet may account for about thirty five percent of cancer. Large cl...