Cruciferous vegetable consumption and lung cancer risk: a systematic review.
Cruciferous vegetables are rich in isothiocyanates and this review states that they can reduce the risk of lung cancer by 22%.
Breast cancer and the role of exercise in women.
This review states that exercise reduces the risk of breast cancer.
Exercise in prevention and management of cancer.
OPINION STATEMENT: Regular and vigorous physical exercise has been scientifically established as providing strong preventative medicine against cancer with the potential to reduce incidence by 40%. The effect is strongest for breast and colorectal cancer; however, evidence is accumulating for the protective influence on prostate cancer, although predominantly for more advanced disease and in older men…
Green tea: nature’s defense against malignancies.
The review is intended to highlight the chemistry of green tea, its antioxidant potential, its immunopotentiating properties and mode of action against various cancer cell lines that showed its potential as a chemopreventive agent against colon, skin, lung, prostate, and breast cancer.
Subsequent malignant neoplasms in cancer survivors.
Although cancer survivors now comprise about 3.5% of the population, subsequent malignancies among this high-risk group account for about 16% (or 1 in 6) of all cancer incidence.
A literature search found 19 human studies that were reviewed. Garlic in the diet did not reduce the risk of gastric, breast, lung, or endometrial cancer.
There is very limited evidence for a reduced risk of colon, prostate, esophageal, larynx, oral, ovary, or renal cell cancers.
Epidemiologic studies show that people with lower serum vitamin D levels have a higher risk of cancers. Will giving vitamin D supplements reduce the risk of cancer?
Cancer J. 2010 January/February;16(1):1-9.
Dietary chemopreventive phytochemicals: too little or too much?
Some dietary phytochemicals seem to offer protection in an exposure-related manner and many molecular targets and signaling pathways affected by phytochemicals have been discovered.
Cancer Prev Res (Phila Pa). 2009 Jul;2(7):611-6.
Cannabis use and risk of lung cancer: a case-control study.
The risk of lung cancer increased 8% for each joint-year (one joint a day for a year) of cannabis smoking and 7% for each pack-year of cigarette smoking. Heavy users of cannabis had more than a five-fold increased risk of lung cancer.
Predictors of inactive lifestyle among adult survivors of childhood cancer.
This study looked at the physical activity of 9301 adult survivors of childhood cancer and 2886 siblings. Adult survivors of childhood cancer survivors were less active than their siblings.
Review: green tea polyphenols in chemoprevention of prostate cancer: preclinical and clinical studies.
Green tea’s major constituent is epigallocatechin gallate.
Nutr Cancer. 2009 Nov;61(6):836-41.
“Epidemiological studies have suggested that obesity is associated with increased risk of several cancer types including colon, esophagus, breast (in postmenopausal women), endometrium, kidney, liver, gallbladder and pancreas.”