"Proceedings based on the Nutrition and Cancer Prevention Scientific Symposium, sponsored by the UCLA/NCI Clinical Nutrition Unit, held November 14, 1994, in Los Angeles, California"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Overview of fat and calories in tumorigenesis -- Interrelationships of high fat diets, obesity, hormones, and cancer -- Nutritional, hormonal, and environmental mechanisms in breast tumorigenesis -- Stromal-epithelial cell interactions in breast cancer -- 20-EPI-vitamin D(three) analogs: potent modulators of proliferation and differentiation of breast cancer cell lines in vitro -- Novel lipids and cancer: isoprenoids and other phytochemicals -- Metabolism of exogenous and endogenous arachidonic acid in cancer -- Stable isotopes and mass isotopomer study of fatty acid and cholesterol synthesis: a review of the MIDA approach -- Lipid biomarkers of adherence to low fat diets -- Choline: a nutrient that is involved in the regulation of cell proliferation, cell death, and cell transformation -- The role of folate, choline, and methionine in carcinogenesis induced by methyl-deficient diets -- Dietary fat and colon cancer -- High fat diet, lipid peroxidation, and pancreatic carcinogenesis -- Nutritional approaches to the prevention of prostate cancer progression