Objective
Cancer in Europe imposes a great social and economic burden; in particular the hormonal cancers, breast and prostate, are major causes of death in the EU. It is now clear that a diet high in plant-based foods may offer protection. This project will analyse the effects of two groups of phytoestrogens (is flavones and lingams), plant compounds with hormonal activity found in food, on the development of breast and prostate cancer. It will study the metabolism of phytoestrogens, individual variation and its influence on cancer risk. This will also include the development of methods for the discovery of new metabolites and for the rapid measurement of bioactive metabolites. This co-ordinated approach using human patients and volunteers, animal models and in vitro techniques will result in in-depth knowledge of the role of these compounds in the development of cancer and enable informed advice to be available in Europe on the beneficial effects of phytoestrogens in the diet.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology prostate cancer
- medical and health sciences health sciences nutrition
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Coordinator
BT52 1SA COLERAINE
United Kingdom
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