About this Research Topic
The impact of diet and nutrition on cancer progression is well documented. Studies showed that 30-40% of all cancers can be controlled by lifestyle and dietary measures. Diet plays a central role in cancer prevention and treatment through interfering with multiple cancer hallmarks. In addition to its importance in cancer prevention, a healthy diet can be used to augment the therapeutic effect of conventional therapies. The Mediterranean diet is classified as one of the healthy diets and is characterized by richness in antioxidants and anti-inflammatory nutrients. However, the research dealing with the impact of Mediterranean diet on cancer faces some challenges including limitations in the methodologies used, the lack of generalization due to high heterogeneity in studies, and the high diversity in nutritional behavior among different populations.
This Research Topic "Mediterranean diet and Cancer: Experimental and Epidemiological Perspectives " aims to increase the knowledge about the relationship between the Mediterranean diet and cancer. It also aims to explore the mechanistic approaches for dietary and nutritional interventions in cancer prevention and treatment.
The Research Topic welcomes articles covering, but not limited to, the following sub-topics:
1. Epidemiological studies connecting Mediterranean food consumption and cancer incidence.
2. Sub-clinical studies that provide further understanding on Mediterranean diet-cancer relationships.
3. Dietary interventions for cancer prevention and therapy based on ingredients from the Mediterranean diet.
4. The use of the Mediterranean diet as complementary anticancer therapies,
5. Cancer incidence and dietary patterns.
6. Biomarkers of dietary exposure.
Manuscripts in the forms of the following formats are welcome to this Research Topic:
- General Commentary
- Hypothesis and Theory
- Mini Review
- Opinion
- Original Research
- Perspective
- Review
- Systematic Review
This Research Topic "Mediterranean diet and Cancer: Experimental and Epidemiological Perspectives " aims to increase the knowledge about the relationship between the Mediterranean diet and cancer. It also aims to explore the mechanistic approaches for dietary and nutritional interventions in cancer prevention and treatment.
The Research Topic welcomes articles covering, but not limited to, the following sub-topics:
1. Epidemiological studies connecting Mediterranean food consumption and cancer incidence.
2. Sub-clinical studies that provide further understanding on Mediterranean diet-cancer relationships.
3. Dietary interventions for cancer prevention and therapy based on ingredients from the Mediterranean diet.
4. The use of the Mediterranean diet as complementary anticancer therapies,
5. Cancer incidence and dietary patterns.
6. Biomarkers of dietary exposure.
Manuscripts in the forms of the following formats are welcome to this Research Topic:
- General Commentary
- Hypothesis and Theory
- Mini Review
- Opinion
- Original Research
- Perspective
- Review
- Systematic Review
Keywords: anticancer nutrition, cancer, diet, nutritional intervention, cancer prevention, Mediterranean food
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