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Common Cancers:
Breast, Prostate, large Bowel
(Colon and Rectal)
MUCH OF MY CAREER has been concentrated on the study of cancer. My
laboratory work was focused on several cancers, including those of the
liver, breast and pancreas, and some of the most impressive data from
China were related to cancer. For this lifetime work, the American In-
stitute for Cancer Research kindly presented me with their Research
Achievement award in 1998.
An exceptional number of books have summarized the evidence on
the effects of nutrition on a variety of cancers, each with their own
particularities. But what I've found is that the nutritional effects on the
cancers I've chosen to discuss here are Virtually the same for all cancers,
regardless of whether they are initiated by different factors or are lo-
cated in different parts of the body. Using this principle, I can limit my
discussion to three cancers, which will allow me space in the rest of the
book to address diseases other than cancer, demonstrating the breadth
of evidence linking food to many health concerns.
I have chosen to comment on three cancers that affect hundreds of
thousands of Americans and that generally represent other cancers as
well: two reproductive cancers that get plenty of attention, breast and
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