Cancer
How Lifestyles May Impact Disease Development, Progression, and Treatment

Explains the connection between lifestyles and cancer, along with the moderating factors and lifestyle choices that affect these associations

Hymie Anisman (Author), Alexander W. Kusnecov (Author)

9780323919043, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 12 April 2022

544 pages, 70 illustrations (60 in full color)
23.4 x 19 x 3.4 cm, 1.11 kg

Cancer: How Lifestyles May Impact Disease Development, Progression, and Treatment explores different processes that influence the efficacy of treatments and what lifestyle and behavioral modification options are available to patients to improve therapy responses, with a focus on addressing their strengths and weaknesses. The book discusses mechanisms by which particular lifestyles may affect cancer processes, including various aspects of immune functioning, inflammatory and energy-related processes, reactive oxygen species, hormonal and neurotransmitter mechanisms, the role of neurotrophins, and microbial effects. Considerable attention is devoted to the impact of psychosocial processes that indirectly affect disease occurrence, and to behavioral change methods.

1. Cancer biology and pathology2. Cancer and immunity3. Microbiota and health4. Genetic and epigenetic processes linked to cancer5. Stressors: Psychological and neurobiological processes6. Stress, immunity, and cancer 7. Eating and nutrition links to cancer8. Dietary components associated with being overweight, having obesity, and cancer9. Microbiota in relation to cancer 10. Exercise11. Sleep and circadian rhythms12. Adopting healthy behaviors: Towards prevention and cures 13. Cancer therapies: Caveats, concerns, and momentum 14. Traditional Therapies and their moderation15. Immunotherapies therapies and their moderation16. Moving forward - The science and the patient

Subject Areas: Life sciences: general issues [PSA]