American Journal of Life Sciences

Special Issue

Nutrition and Cancer

  • Submission Deadline: Feb. 20, 2015
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Zahra Bahadoran
About This Special Issue
Various factors including genetic background, familial history cancer, race and ethnicity, smocking, alcohol consumption, relative body weight, lifestyle and environmental factors have been proposed as main contributors for cancer incidence. Dietary patterns and food components are considered as main modifiable risk factors for development of cancer. Several studies showed that dietary intake of macro and micronutrients as well as various food groups including fruits and vegetables, phytochemical-rich foods, dairy and meat products may be related to the risk of cancer. Protective effects of some dietary patterns such as prudent/healthy pattern, plant-based and Mediterranean diet, and some food groups such as fruits and vegetables, whole grains, nuts and fish meat against the development of cancer has been reported. On the other hand, such dietary pattern including Western dietary pattern and higher consumption of processed foods, fast foods and unhealthy snacks, refined grains, saturated and trans fats have been known as risk for development of cancer. The proposed special issue "American Journal of Life Sciences" could be contains research articles as well as review articles regarding the diet, nutrition and food science and the risk of cancer.
Lead Guest Editor
  • Zahra Bahadoran

    Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Guest Editors
  • xiang cheng

    Department of Radiation Oncology, Ohio State University, Columbus, United States

  • Gláucio Diré Feliciano

    Analysis Laboratory Chemical and Biological (LAQB), Sector Center for Biological and Health Sciences, Foundation State University Center of the West Zone (UEZO), University of Pharmacy Unit (UFAR), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Published Articles
  • The Association of Meat Consumption and Breast Cancer Risk: A Case Control Study in a Population of Iranian Women

    Zeinab Karimi , Zahra Bahadoran , Anahita Houshiar-rad , Hamid-Reza Mirzayi , Bahram Rashidkhani

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2-1, March 2015
    Pages: 6-11
    Received: Nov. 12, 2014
    Accepted: Nov. 14, 2014
    Published: Nov. 22, 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ajls.s.2015030201.12
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    Abstract: Objective: Epidemiologic data do not provide consistent evidence for an association between consumption of meat and breast cancer risk. We conducted a hospital-based case-control study during April and July 2010 among Iranian women to investigate associations between dietary meat intake, its types and breast cancer risk. Methods: One-hundred consec... Show More
  • Healthy Dietary Patterns and the Risk of Breast Cancer: A Review of Current Data

    Zahra Bahadoran , Zeinab Karimi , Somayeh Abedini

    Issue: Volume 3, Issue 2-1, March 2015
    Pages: 1-5
    Received: Nov. 12, 2014
    Accepted: Nov. 14, 2014
    Published: Nov. 22, 2014
    DOI: 10.11648/j.ajls.s.2015030201.11
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    Abstract: There is growing evidence that healthy dietary patterns including Mediterranean, prudent, traditional and plant-food based dietary patterns could have favorable effects in breast cancer prevention but there are inconsistencies in this regard. In the current study we reviewed the current evidences in relation to healthy dietary patterns and the risk... Show More