Nutritional Metabolomics in Cancer Epidemiology
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional Epidemiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (22 February 2023) | Viewed by 26037
Special Issue Editor
Interests: diet; nutrition; metabolic health; epidemiology; biomarkers; cancer; diabetes
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Diet plays an important role at different stages of carcinogenesis, from initiation to progression of disease. While the evidence for the relationships of certain foods, beverages, dietary patterns, and dietary supplements with some cancers is considered convincing, there is a lack of clarity on many dietary exposures, particularly in relation to cancer subtypes. Evidence for the role of diet after cancer diagnosis on survival outcomes remains limited. Moreover, a better understanding of the biological mechanisms underpinning dietary associations with cancer is needed.
The emergence of nutritional metabolomics has uncovered a multitude of food-derived dietary metabolites and endogenous metabolites reflecting the influence of diet on human metabolism. These developments provide an avenue for improving dietary measurement to resolve outstanding research questions that have been limited by measurement error and biases. In addition, nutritional metabolomics serves as a window into the biological pathways that may be responsible for epidemiological observations of diet and cancer associations.
This Special Issue will encompass recent research in the field of nutritional and cancer epidemiology with an emphasis on the application of metabolomics (including lipidomics) technology to the study of diet and cancer. Both original articles and reviews spanning clinical and observational research studies are welcome.
Dr. Mary C. Playdon
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- diet
- nutrition
- metabolomics
- cancer
- biomarker
- metabolism
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