Oncological Functional Nutrition

Phytochemicals and Medicinal Plants

Maira Rubi Segura Campos, Armando Manuel Martin Ortega
Elsevier S&T
208 pages
ISBN: ‎ 9780128198285
August 2021

This book presents the anticancer activities, metabolism, mechanism of action, doses, and sources of various phytochemicals and medicinal plants. Broken into five parts, this book addresses cancer epidemiology, molecular and therapeutic bases of cancer, macro and micronutrients in cancer prevention and treatment, phytochemicals in the cancer treatment, and medical plants as potential functional foods or resources for the obtention of metabolites with anticancer activity.