Cancer Prevention and Management Through Exercise and Weight Control brings together the contributions of world-class researchers to lay out the evidence and a plan of attack for coping with this crisis.

Features:

• Explores the role of energy balance and activity in cancer incidence and prognosis
• Examines the effect of physical activity on fatigue in cancer patients, as well as its effect on quality of life
• Suggests biological mechanisms that might explain the association between exercises and cancer incidence
• Reviews the new field of genetics, physical activity, and cancer, which identifies individuals who might be helped with exercise

Contents

• Research Methods
• Observational Studies and Intervention Trials in Exercise, Diet, and Cancer Prevention Research
• Physical Activity Measurement
• Measurement of Body Fat and Energy Balance
• Physical Activity and Cancer Incidence
• Physical Activity and Cancer Incidence: Breast Cancer
• Physical Activity and Colorectal Cancer
• Physical Activity and Prostate Cancer Risk
• Mechanisms Associating Physical Activity with Cancer Incidence
• Physical Activity Effects on Sex Hormones
• Exercise and Insulin Resistance
• Exercise and Immune Function
• Exercise and Prostaglandins
• Mechanisms Associating Obesity with Cancer Incidence: Animal Models:
• Physical Activity Intervention Studies in Humans
• Genetics, Physical Activity, and Cancer
• Overweight/Obesity and Cancer Incidence
• Obesity, Weight Change, and Breast Cancer Incidence
• Body Size, Obesity, and Colorectal Cancer
• Endogenous Hormone Metabolism and Endometrial Cancer
• Obesity and Pancreatic Cancer
• Obesity and Overweight in Relation to Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus
• Mechanisms Associating Obesity with Cancer Incidence
• Obesity and Sex Hormones
• Obesity and Insulin Resistance
• Obesity, Cytokines, and Other Inflammatory Markers
• Mechanisms Associating Physical Activity with Cancer Incidence: Animal Models
• Genetics, Obesity, and Cancer
• Physical Activity and Cancer Prognosis
• Quality of Life and Fatigue in Breast Cancer
• Exercise and Quality of Life in Survivors of Cancer Other Than Breast
• Physical Activity and Physiological Effects Relevant to Prognosis
• Energy Balance and Cancer Prognosis
• Breast Cancer
• Colon, Prostate, and Other Cancers
• Implementation
• Physical Activity and Energy Balance
• Diet and Other Means of Energy Balance Control
• Population-Based Approaches to Increasing Physical Activity
• Incorporating Exercise and Diet Recommendations into Primary Care Practice
• Promoting Physical Activity in Cancer Survivors
• Obesity and Early Stage Breast Cancer Outcome
• Incorporating Weight Control into Management of Patients with Early Breast Cancer in the U.K

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