Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Overview of the Most Common Cancer Types
Chapter 2. Cancer Development Step By Step
Chapter 3. Conventional Chemotherapy and its Limitations
Chapter 4. Complex Mechanisms Of Cancer Drug Resistance: Possibilities for Intervention with natural Compounds
Chapter 5. Plant Flavonoids: Their Natural Sources, Bioavailability and Anticancer Properties
Chapter 6. Effects of Plant Flavonoids on Chemotherapeutic Efficacy of Cancer Drugs
Chapter 7. Conclusions and Further Perspectives to Improve Cancer Therapeutic Outcome
About the Author
Abbreviations
Subject Index by Flavonoids
Subject Index by Drugs
Audience
This book provides supporting material for cancer patients who have decided to alter their diet and consume plant-derived dietary supplements, to do it in conscious and well-informed manner for the best therapeutic outcome. This book can be a good assistant also for medical doctors and dietary counselors who are everyday faced with multiple questions of patients about the utility of different herbal supplements, their suitability or contraindication during chemotherapeutic treatment regimens. In addition, this book clearly highlights the most attractive synergistic combinations of flavonoids and antineoplastic agents which are worth of urgent initiation of clinical trials by medical researchers and clinical scientists.
Keywords: Nutritional oncology, food and cancer, diet and cancer, plant-derived polyphenols, dietary flavonoids, cancer, cancer therapy, chemotherapy, cytotoxic drugs, alkylating drugs, platinum drugs, topoisomerase inhibitors, antimetabolites, microtubule targeting drugs, chemoresistance, chemosensitization
