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 - p. i 2. Cover - p. i 3. Title Page - p. i 4. Copyright Page - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. Dedication - p. v 7. Preface - p. xi 8. Acknowledgments - p. xiii 9. Chapter 1 Cancer biology and pathology - p. 1 10. Chapter 2 Cancer and immunity - p. 39 11. Chapter 3 Microbiota and health - p. 69 12. Chapter 4 Genetic and epigenetic processes linked to cancer - p. 93 13. Chapter 5 Stressors: Psychological and neurobiological processes - p. 135 14. Chapter 6 Stress, immunity, and cancer - p. 177 15. Chapter 7 Eating and nutrition links to cancer - p. 225 16. Chapter 8 Dietary components associated with being overweight, having obesity, and cancer - p. 253 17. Chapter 9 Microbiota in relation to cancer - p. 279 18. Chapter 10 Exercise - p. 311 19. Chapter 11 Sleep and circadian rhythms - p. 341 20. Chapter 12 Adopting healthy behaviors: Toward prevention and cures - p. 369 21. Chapter 13 Cancer therapies: Caveats, concerns, and momentum - p. 401 22. Chapter 14 Traditional therapies and their moderation - p. 431 23. Chapter 15 Immunotherapies and their moderation - p. 461 24. Chapter 16 Moving forward—The science and the patient - p. 503 25. Index - p. 517
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 - p. i 2. Cover - p. i 3. Title Page - p. i 4. Copyright Page - p. iv 5. Table of Contents - p. iv 6. Dedication - p. v 7. Preface - p. xi 8. Acknowledgments - p. xiii 9. Chapter 1 Cancer biology and pathology - p. 1 10. Chapter 2 Cancer and immunity - p. 39 11. Chapter 3 Microbiota and health - p. 69 12. Chapter 4 Genetic and epigenetic processes linked to cancer - p. 93 13. Chapter 5 Stressors: Psychological and neurobiological processes - p. 135 14. Chapter 6 Stress, immunity, and cancer - p. 177 15. Chapter 7 Eating and nutrition links to cancer - p. 225 16. Chapter 8 Dietary components associated with being overweight, having obesity, and cancer - p. 253 17. Chapter 9 Microbiota in relation to cancer - p. 279 18. Chapter 10 Exercise - p. 311 19. Chapter 11 Sleep and circadian rhythms - p. 341 20. Chapter 12 Adopting healthy behaviors: Toward prevention and cures - p. 369 21. Chapter 13 Cancer therapies: Caveats, concerns, and momentum - p. 401 22. Chapter 14 Traditional therapies and their moderation - p. 431 23. Chapter 15 Immunotherapies and their moderation - p. 461 24. Chapter 16 Moving forward—The science and the patient - p. 503 25. Index - p. 517
