New approaches to the role of diet in the prevention of cancers of the alimentary tract

Mutation Research
I T Johnson

Abstract

Cancers of the alimentary tract are, collectively, amongst the major causes of morbidity and deaths from cancer across the world today. Of the 10 million new cases of cancer diagnosed in 2000, about 2.3 million were cancers of the pharynx, oesophagus, stomach or colorectum. Nevertheless, epidemiological studies indicate that cancers of the digestive organs are also amongst the most susceptible to modification by dietary factors. International variations in incidence suggest that round three quarters of all sporadic colorectal cancers are attributable to diet. Even within the relatively uniform environment of the European Union, there are variations in the incidence of colorectal and oesophageal cancers of about two- and six-fold, respectively. Carcinomas of the alimentary tract arise from epithelial cells via distinct sequences of neoplastic change, which require a large fraction of an individual's lifespan. The best characterised of these is the adenoma-carcinoma sequence of colorectal carcinogenesis, in which progressive loss of differentiation and normal morphology in a growing lesion is associated with the acquisition of somatic mutations, and of aberrant methylation of CpG-islands, leading to gene silencing. These molecula...Continue Reading

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