Cancer Prevention: Novel Nutrient and Pharmaceutical Developments (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573311995 ISBN 13: 9781573311991

Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences, 1999

Synopsis

In this book a group of leading authorities examines several classes of nutrients and pharmaceutical agents currently believed to be important for tumor inhibition. The authors review novel preclinical models that facilitate analyzing chemopreventive agencts' efficacy and mechanisms of gene-nutrient interaction. They also provide current information on recent clinical trials underway studying chemopreventive regimens in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

While the book does not attempt to cover all developments emerging in this field, it does provide a review of: varieties of nutrients and pharmaceutical compounds with tumor-inhibitory properties; current strategies, including preclinical genetic models, for studying chemopreventive agents; recent studies of cyclooxygenase-2 and tumor inhibition; calcium and vitamin D in cancer prevention; an update on breast cancer prevention; and updates from Europe and Asia on chemoprevention studies currently under way.

About this title

About the Author:

H. L. Bradlow, Jack Fishman, and Michael P. Osborne are with the Strang Cancer Prevention Center at Rockefeller University.

About this edition

• Publisher: New York Academy of Sciences
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1573311995
• ISBN 13: 9781573311991
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Bradlow H. Leon, Fishman Jack, Osborne Michael P.