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Nutrition, Cancer, and Aging: An Annotated Review
Author(s) -
Balducci Lodovico,
Wallace Clinton,
Khansur Tawfiq,
Vance Ralph B.,
Thigpen J. Tate,
Hardy Cheryl
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1986.tb05481.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer , cancer prevention , population , diet and cancer , gerontology , carcinogenesis , environmental health , vulnerability (computing) , carcinogen , biology , biochemistry , computer security , computer science
The interrelationships of diet and carcinogenesis are discussed with the focus on aging. To establish whether the elderly are more susceptible to dietary carcinogens and whether dietary prevention of cancer is a reasonable goal for this population, the mechanisms of chemical carcinogenesis, the age‐related metabolic and physiologic changes, and the current cancer preventive dietary strategies are reviewed. Vulnerability to dietary carcinogens results from a combination of factors that may increase or decrease the occurrence of cancer in the elderly, and it is, therefore, a very individualized feature, unpredictable when based solely on a subject's age. Dietary prevention of cancer may be effective in advanced age, and the dietary guidelines of the National Academy of Sciences should be implemented in this population.