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Nutrition-related diseases
Nutrition assessment
Vitamins & minerals

Alcohol

Cancer and nutrition

Cardiovascular disease nutrition

Diabetes

Food allergy and intolerance, coeliac disease etc.

GIT disorders

HIV

Osteoporosis

Renal disease

Weight and eating disorders

Cancer and nutrition

For health professionals: general cancer material

Specific cancers

For patients and general public

American Cancer Society: Nutrition in prevention of cancer

Sections on background, general diet recommendations, common questions about diet and cancer and specific cancer-diet links.

CancerNet: Nutrition information for physicians (National Cancer Institute)

Referenced plain text document on the nutritional impacts of cancer, and how to assess them, for health professionals. Interestingly, they have an only mildly edited patient version of this document as well.

 

The Cancer Nutrition Center

A most valuable resouce. Carolyn Katzin is a dietitian and author of lay nutrition books, with a particular interest in cancer nutrition. Her web site offers detailed advice on preventive nutrition and appropriate eating for cancer patients, those undergoing chemotherapy etc. She works with a "holistically oriented medical group" and her approach reflects that interest, i.e. includes lots of reference to antioxidant vitamins, phytonutrients etc.

Diet & Cancer Report: American Institute for Cancer Research

Joint report from the American Institute for Cancer Research in collaboration with its United Kingdom affiliate, the World Cancer Research Fund. This web site has some summary recommendations of the 600+ page report.

Images of Cancer Prevention

Developed in support of a more comprehensive program for medical nutrition education which includes a CD-ROM, this laudible web site covers 4 main areas: Dietary guidelines, natural history of cancer, .physician interventions research, case studies and virtual conferences.

Harvard Report on Cancer Prevention: Dietary Factors

Plain text report from Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention. "The Report, written by Harvard-affiliated researchers and reviewed by other highly regarded investigators across the US, is intended to serve as a resource on cancer prevention for the scientific and medical communities, policy makers, news media, and general public."

NYU Women's Health Study

From NYU School of Medicine Department of Environmental Medicine, reports on ongoing progress of study which involves, inter alia, research into diet and breast cancer. "NYU Women's Health Study is a prospective cohort study that began in 1985 with the collaboration of the Guttman Institute. Since 1985, the Study has enrolled over 15,000 women -- 14,275 in the New York City metropolitan area, and 1,507 in Florida -- in its quest to identify the role of endogenous hormones, diet, and other environmental exposures in the etiology of the most common cancers in women, especially breast cancer."

Nutrition in Cancer PDQ Physician Statement

Short outline of nutritional issues in cancer treatment for physicians.

Terminal care: the patient who will not eat

From University Of Dundee Centre For Medical Education, part of a larger set of lecture notes on management of terminal care patients, including this section on nutrition issues.There is a course index .

Nutrition and Cancer Research Unit, International Agency for Research on Cancer

Short description of the staff and focus of this unit, based in Lyon, France.

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Specific cancers

Diet and Breast Cancer Risk: Cornell University

From Cornell University program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF), a range of papers on various aspects of diet, lifestyle and breast cancer. There is information (including bibliographies) on phytoestrogens, fat, alcohol, pesticide residue, the BCERF Diet and Lifestyle database, plus some consumer fact sheets and links.

Phytoestrogens and Breast Cancer: bibliography

Bibliography from Cornell University's Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors in New York State, this is a reasonably long list of citations with titles but no comments or abstracts.

Selenium supplementation and cancer prevention

Summary of a JAMA paper and the discussion that it raised in a family physician journal club on-line. Interesting perspective using the Internet to review a research article.

 

 

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For patients and the general public

American Institute for Cancer Research

"the leading national cancer organization in the field of diet, nutrition and cancer. Here you will find information on cancer and cancer prevention that you can use to reduce your cancer risk."

See particularly their newsletter Nutrition Notes: American Institute for Cancer Research, which is "a weekly nutrition and health column produced by the American Institute for Cancer Research and distributed by request to more than 725 newspapers nationwide". They also have "Nutrition Wise", a weekly nutrition and health question and answer column and a quarterly newsletter with consumer articles on cooking, healthy eating etc.

Oncolink: Diet and Cancer

Oncolink is a resource on cancer based at the Univ.of Pennsylvania. This page has links, lots of them, with an emphasis on lay information and news stories from the general media.

Non Chew Cookbook

A cookbook for those unable to chew solid food. Sample recipes but you need to buy the real thing to get the rest of it.

5 A Day Home Page

A national nutrition program sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (along with the Produce for Better Health Foundation). Encourages Americans to eat 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables every day for better health. The web site is colourful and has material for children as well as health educators.

A Dietitian's Cancer Story: Information and Inspiration for Recovery and Healing from a 3-Time Cancer Survivor

Dietitian Diana Dyer tells her own story with cancer, offers recipes and some useful general cancer links, particularly related to alternative methods. The site also provides ordering information about a book she has written.

Eating Hints for Cancer Patients

From the NIH National Cancer Institute, lay advice in some detail in this hyperlinked illustrated document.

Hellenic Cancer Society - Nutrition and Cancer

Lay advice with pictures, but in Greek.

CancerNet: Nutrition information for patients (National Cancer Institute)

Referenced plain text document on the nutritional impacts of cancer, and how to assess them, for patients. Interestingly, they have an only mildly edited physician version of this document as well.

Nutrition in Cancer

Article for lay public in German. Ernährung bei Krebs. From a general nutrition information site INform.

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