Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Dietary Patterns and Cancer
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional Epidemiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 May 2025 | Viewed by 70596
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Alzheimer’s disease; cancer; COVID-19; dietary components and patterns; UVB; Vitamin D
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2. Department of Medicine and Surgery, Research Center in Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine (EPIMED), University of Insubria, 21100 Varese, Italy
Interests: nutritional epidemiology; Mediterranean diet; public health; social determinants; biological mediators; ultraprocessed foods; diet quality
Interests: cancer risk factors; epidemiology; prevention; biomarkers; omics analysis; skin neoplasm; repurposing drugs; vitamin D
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Although cancer is considered largely preventable by a healthy diet, there is convincing evidence only for some (e.g., fruit, vegetables, and fiber) of the many studied dietary factors. Robust studies, particularly on dietary patterns, are still necessary to implement guidelines for cancer prevention.
Patients diagnosed with cancer often present in a malnourished state, with them being at high risk of losing vital body resources which results in immunodeficiency, an impaired quality of life, and worse clinical outcomes. Moreover, in advanced cancer, where a cure still remains elusive, optimal supportive and integrated nutrition are required to allow patients to tolerate aggressive or long-term anticancer treatments, to maintain an adequate quality of life, or to stay the course of advancing disease.
Our goal is to further disetangle the relationship between dietary patterns with any type of cancer risk; to contribute to the development of evidence-based dietary recommendations tailored specifically to cancer survivors; and to provide a comprehensive update on nutrition scientific evidence as a crucial factor in preventing, promoting, and treating cancer scenarios.
This Special Issue welcomes original research articles and reviews on nutrition-related cancer prevention, diagnosis, and intervention.
Dr. William B. Grant
Prof. Dr. Licia Iacoviello
Prof. Dr. Sara Gandini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- dietary patterns
- cancer
- nutritional support
- malnutrition
- cancer prevention
- cancer survivors
- quality of life
- personalized medicine
- lifestyle recommendations
- biomarkers
- microbiome
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