Nutritional Oncology: Nutrition in Cancer Prevention, Treatment, and Survivorship

Product Description
Nutritional Oncology: Nutrition in Cancer Prevention, Treatment, and Survivorship presents evidence-based approaches to the study and application of nutrition in all phases of cancer including prevention, treatment, and survivorship.
There is a long history of interest in the role of nutrition in cancer but only in the last 50 years has this interdisciplinary field developed scientific evidence from a combination of population studies, basic research, and clinical studies. Precision oncology, targeted therapies and immunonutrition have led to advances in cancer treatment and prevention. Highlighting insights from Precision Oncology and Precision Nutrition to improve cancer prevention, treatment and survival is the core mission of this book. The editors have over 40 years of clinical and research experience integrating science with practical advice based on available evidence for healthcare professionals while highlighting research vistas for the scientific community.
Features:
Comprehensive treatment of all aspects of nutrition and cancer, including prevention, response to treatment, avoidance of relapse and promotion of quality of life for cancer survivors.
Examines alternative medicines and botanical dietary supplements and identifies hypotheses for future research based on science.
This book is written for doctors, dietitians, and other health care professional advising cancer patients, cancer survivors and the general public.
About the Author
Dr. Heber is Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Public Health at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is internationally prominent in the field nutrition and cancer as well as in obesity, and age-related chronic diseases and the application of nutrition in common forms of cancer including prostate and breast cancer. He is also the Founding Director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition and founding Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition in the UCLA Department of Medicine where he directed multiple NIH-funded research programs including the National Cancer Institute-funded UCLA Clinical Nutrition Research Unit, The NIH-funded UCLA Dietary Supplements Research Center: Botanicals and the NIH- National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases UCLA Nutrition and Obesity Training Program where he oversaw the training of research fellows many of whom are currently in academic or industry positions. He has published over 250 research papers and numerous professional texts. Internationally. In 2014, he co-wrote a textbook with Dr. Bharat Aggarwal entitled “Immunonutrition” (CRC Press). Dr. Heber is board-certified in Internal Medicine, and Endocrinology and Metabolism by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He earned his MD at Harvard Medical School, and his Ph.D. in Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition, the highest honor of the society. In 2017, he co-wrote a textbook for doctors together with Dr. Zhaoping Li, entitled “Primary Care Nutrition: Writing the Nutrition Prescription (CRC Press, 2017).
Zhaoping Li, MD, PhD is the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Endowed Chair in Human Nutrition, Professor and Chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is also the Vice Chair of Medicine at the Greater Los Angeles VA Health System and is the Director of the multidisciplinary UCLA Center for Human Nutrition which includes the renowned UCLA Weight Management Program, the Nutritional Medicine Consultation Service and a Nutritional Oncology Consultation Program serving cancer patients in over 80 practices within UCLA Health Care System. She has been working with Dr. Heber in the Division of Clinical Nutrition since 1997. Dr. Li is board certified in internal medicine, physician nutrition specialists, a fellow of American College of Physicians, and is a former Preside