Cancer

How Lifestyles May Impact Disease Development, Progression, and Treatment

Hymie Anisman, Alexander Kusnecov
Elsevier
544 pages
ISBN: 9780323919043
April 2022

This book 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. It 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.