Table Of ContentANTICANCER
PROPERTIES OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
A Scientific Review
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ANTICANCER
PROPERTIES FRUITS VEGETABLES
OF AND
A Scientific Review
Ajaikumar B Kunnumakkara
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India
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Anticancer properties of fruits and vegetables : a scientific review / [edited] by Ajaikumar B.
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ISBN 978-9814508889 (hardcover : alk. paper)
I. Kunnumakkara, Ajaikumar B., editor.
[DNLM: 1. Neoplasms--prevention & control. 2. Anticarcinogenic Agents. 3. Chemoprevention.
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Contents
Contributors ix
Preface xvii
1 Cancer Preventive and Therapeutic Properties of Fruits
and Vegetables: An Overview 1
Chandrasekharan Guruvayoorappan,
Kunnathur Murugesan Sakthivel, Ganesan Padmavathi,
Vaishali Bakliwal, Javadi Monisha and
Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara
2 Phytochemicals Safeguard the Genome: Tiny Molecules,
Big Role 53
Sanjit Dey, Nilanjan Das, Debdutta Ganguli, Mahuya Sinha,
Kunal Sikder, Swaraj Bandhu Kesh, Dipesh Kr Das,
Amitava Khan, Ujjal Das, Krishnendu Manna,
Sushobhan Biswas, Anirban Pradhan and Rakhi Sharma Dey
3 Phytonutrients from Fruits and Vegetables in Breast Cancer
Control 75
Madhumita Roy, Apurba Mukherjee, Sutapa Mukherjee
and Jaydip Biswas
4 Anti-Proliferative and Pro-Apoptotic Effects of Bioactive
Constituents Derived from Fruits and Vegetables Against
Colorectal Cancer 103
Sakshi Sikka and Gautam Sethi
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5 Anticancer Activities of Fruits and Vegetables Against
Gynecological Cancers 131
Sankar Jagadeeshan, Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara,
Indu Ramachandran and S. Asha Nair
6 Cancer Chemopreventive and Therapeutic Properties
of Fruits and Vegetables Against Head and Neck Malignancies 161
Jesil Mathew Aranjani, Ganesan Padmavathi,
Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara and Atulya Mathew
7 Anticancer Activities of Fruits and Vegetables Against Liver
and Pancreatic Cancers 185
Farid A. Badria, Diaaeldin M. Elimam and Ahmed S. Ibrahim
8 Cancer Preventive and Therapeutic Properties of Fruits
and Vegetables Against Lung Cancer 221
Kunnathur Murugesan Sakthivel, Javadi Monisha,
Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara
and Chandrasekharan Guruvayoorappan
9 Prostate Cancer: How Helpful are Natural Agents
for Prevention? 251
Manoj K. Pandey, Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara
and Shantu G. Amin
10 Phytochemicals from Fruits and Vegetables as Potential
Anticancer Agents: Special Reference to Skin Cancer 277
Jayesh Antony, Minakshi Saikia and Ruby John Anto
11 Anticancer Effects of Agents Derived from Fruits
and Vegetables Against Stomach Cancer 309
Sakshi Sikka and Gautam Sethi
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12 Cancer Preventive and Therapeutic Properties of Fruits
and Vegetables Against Commonly Occurring Cancers
in Humans 337
Javadi Monisha, Ganesan Padmavathi, Vaishali Bakliwal,
Naman Katre, Jose Padikkala and
Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara
Index 367
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Contributors
Ahmed S. Ibrahim
Department of Biochemistry
Faculty of Pharmacy
Mansoura University
Mansoura-35516, Egypt
Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara
Department of Biotechnology
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Assam-781039, India
Amitava Khan
Department of Physiology
University of Calcutta
West Bengal-700009, India
Anirban Pradhan
Department of Physiology
University of Calcutta
West Bengal-700009, India
Apurba Mukherjee
Department of Environmental Carcinogenesis & Toxicology
Chittranjan National Cancer Institute
Kolkata, West Bengal-700 026, India
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