Dietary Supplements and Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment: A survey of medical and scientific research

A unique and practical resource for breast cancer patients, their health care providers, family members and biomedical researchers, Dietary Supplements and Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment provides a timely overview of research studies investigating the influence of over 80 common supplements upon the risk for and prognosis of breast cancer. Each chapter begins with an explanation of the nature of the supplement and possible safety concerns before describing key clinical trials, epidemiological studies, laboratory investigations (including human breast cancer cell lines and animal studies) and a summary.The text is augmented by thousands of direct references to the medical literature using PubMed citations. For the first time, breast cancer patients have a convenient in-hand guide presenting what is scientifically known about dietary supplements and breast cancer.The author, John V. Cooney, MD, PhD, FCAP, FASCP, is a retired board certified anatomic and clinical pathologist and organic chemist who practiced in Massachusetts. He served as attending pathologist and Chief of Pathology at Quincy Medical Center as well as director of Anatomic Pathology at South Shore Hospital. He is an emeritus member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, the Massachusetts Society of Pathologists and the New England Society of Pathologists. Read more