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Considerable time has
passed since the original
publication of this title
(1995) and its second
printing (1998). During
the early 1990s there
was an urgent need to
provide professional researchers,
medical professionals
and cancer patients with
reputable published research
regarding the many proven
facts and demonstrable
associations in the giant
field of Nutrition and
Cancer.
In fact, when I compiled
the original database
for the Bristol Cancer
Help Centre in 1993/94,
there were over 5000 database
entries from Medline just
covering the preceding
seven years! Since that
time, now almost a decade
later, and with the advent
of many wonderful books,
journals and publications,
including my own Positive
Health magazine and the
internet, the bookshelves
and internet sites are
overflowing with published
research about the numerous
tangible effects of Diet
and Nutrition, including
Antioxidant Vitamins and
Minerals, Fatty Acids,
specific Dietary regimens,
Molecular Action of Nutrients
upon the progress of Cancer.
This, the Third Printing
of Nutrition and Cancer:
State-of-the-Art, provides
a comprehensively referenced
update of the research
from 1998-2002, a Further
Reading and Suggested
Internet Site Guide, as
well as suggested Guidelines
both for Diet and Nutritional
Supplements.
I shall be eternally
grateful to Pat Pilkington
MBE who originally commissioned
me to compile the Cancer
and Nutrition database
for the Bristol Cancer
Help Centre, not realizing
at the time, how enormous
the task is to keep up
to date with research.
Now, some ten years later,
publishing research updates
monthly in Positive Health,
I have come to the conclusion
that the research is vital,
but almost as important
or perhaps even more important,
is the agenda of the medical
profession, the government
and the health service,
who to date, by and large,
still do not acknowledge
the vast role played by
nutrition in cancer treatment
and still does not apply
nutritional solutions
to cancer treatment.
In fact, with the passage
of the EU Supplement Directive
in 2002, gravely restricting
specific supplements and
their dosages available
to consumers, the fight
for the right of the public
to protect their health
by taking nutritional
supplements looms large
for the foreseeable future.
Thus, I anticipate that
the tasks for the next
decade will have to be,
in addition to performing,
compiling and keeping
abreast of Nutrition research,
also to fight t
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