Main description:

Cancer: How Lifestyles May Impact Disease Development, Progression, and Treatment 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. The book 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. Considerable attention is devoted to the impact of psychosocial processes that indirectly affect disease occurrence, and to behavioral change methods.

Contents:

1. Cancer biology and pathology
2. Cancer and immunity
3. Microbiota and health
4. Genetic and epigenetic processes linked to cancer
5. Stressors: Psychological and neurobiological processes
6. Stress, immunity, and cancer
7. Eating and nutrition links to cancer
8. Dietary components associated with being overweight, having obesity, and cancer
9. Microbiota in relation to cancer
10. Exercise
11. Sleep and circadian rhythms
12. Adopting healthy behaviors: Towards prevention and cures
13. Cancer therapies: Caveats, concerns, and momentum
14. Traditional Therapies and their moderation
15. Immunotherapies therapies and their moderation
16. Moving forward - The science and the patient