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Textbooks and chapters

  • World Cancer Research Fund & American Institute for Cancer Research. Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective. Washington, DC: American Institute for Cancer Research, 1997. A comprehensive review of the literature on nutritional aspects of cancer prevention. Packed with informative tables and figures.
  • Heber D, Blackburn GL, Go VLW (eds). Nutritional oncology. New York: Academic Press, 1999. A comprehensive review of evidence and mechanisms relating nutrition to the etiology of cancer; diet, nutrition, and cancer prevention; nutritional assessment and therapy of the cancer patient; and clinical trials in nutritional oncology. Second edition in preparation.

Review articles

  • Byers T, Nestle M, McTiernan A, et al. American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention (2002). Reducing the risk of cancer with healthy food choices and physical activity. CA Cancer J Clin 2002;52:92-119.
  • Brown JK, Byers T, Doyle C, et al. Nutrition and physical activity during and after cancer treatment: an American Cancer Society guide for informed choices. CA Cancer J Clin 2003;53:268-91.
  • Carmichael AR, Bates T. Obesity and breast cancer: a review of the literature. The Breast 2004;13:85-92.
  • Key TJ, Allen NE, Spencer EA, Travis RC. The effect of diet on risk of cancer. Lancet 2002; 360: 861–68.
  • McCullough ML, Giovannucci EL. Diet and cancer prevention. Oncogene 2004;23:6349-64. A concise review of the evidence linking diet to cancer etiology.

Original reports

  • Calle EE, Rodriguez C, Walker-Thurmond K, Thun MJ. Overweight, obesity, and mortality from cancer in a prospectively studied cohort of U.S. adults. New Engl J Med 2003;348:1625-38.
  • Feigelson HS, Jonas CR, Teras LR, et al. Weight gain, body mass index, hormone replacement therapy, and postmenopausal breast cancer in a large prospective study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2004;13:220-4.

Seminal papers

  • DeWys WE, Bogg C, Lavin PP, et al: Prognostic effect of weight loss prior to chemotherapy in cancer patients. Am J Med 1980;69:491-7.
  • McGeer AJ, Detsky AS, O'Rourke K: Parenteral nutrition in patients receiving cancer chemotherapy. Ann Intern Med 1989;110:734-6.

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