Phytochemicals and colorectal cancer prevention-myth or reality?

Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 592-596

  Ricciardiello, Luigi ^a   Bazzoli, Franco ^a   Fogliano, Vincenzo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; APPLE EXTRACT; CURCUMIN; EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; ICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; PLANT EXTRACT; PLANT MEDICINAL PRODUCT; QUERCETIN; RESVERATROL; SILIBININ; SULFORAPHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PREVENTION; CARDIOTOXICITY; CHEMOPROPHYLAXIS; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLON ADENOMA; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; DIETARY INTAKE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENCY; FAMILIAL COLON POLYPOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION;

ANTICARCINOGENIC AGENTS; CHEMOPREVENTION; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DIET; DIETARY FIBER; FRUIT; HUMANS; PHYTOTHERAPY; VEGETABLES;

EID: 80053651707     PISSN: 17595045     EISSN: 17595053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrgastro.2011.149     Document Type: Review

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