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Review
. 2003 Oct;3(10):768-80.
doi: 10.1038/nrc1189.

Cancer chemoprevention with dietary phytochemicals

Young-Joon Surh  1
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Review

Cancer chemoprevention with dietary phytochemicals

Young-Joon Surh. Nat Rev Cancer. 2003 Oct.

Abstract

Chemoprevention refers to the use of agents to inhibit, reverse or retard tumorigenesis. Numerous phytochemicals derived from edible plants have been reported to interfere with a specific stage of the carcinogenic process. Many mechanisms have been shown to account for the anticarcinogenic actions of dietary constituents, but attention has recently been focused on intracellular-signalling cascades as common molecular targets for various chemopreventive phytochemicals.

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