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Cancer Prevention and Management through Exercise and Weight Control

Edited by Anne McTiernan

Contributors: George L. Blackburn, Pamela J. Goodwin, David Heber, Henry J. Thompson, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, Cathrine Hoyo, Page E. Abrahamson, Ross L. Prentice, Barbara Ellen Ainsworth, Melinda Irwin, Alpa V. Patel, Martha L. Slattery, Christine Friedenreich, Laura Lewis Frank, Neli Ulrich, Catherine Wetmore, Maria Elena Martinez, Tuomo Rankinen, Rudolf Kaaks, Dominique S. Michaud, Lisa H. Colbert, Shelley Tworoger, Kerri Winters, Anna L. Schwartz, Kerry S. Courneya, Cheryl Lee Rock, Mikael Fogelholm, Fiona C. L. Bull, Nicolaas P. Pronk, Rowan Chlebowski, Michelle Harvie, Susan Bowerman, Weiqin Jiang, Zongjian Zhu, Marilie D. Gammon, Karen J. Coleman, Leslie Bernstein, Annekatrin Lukanova, Edward Giovannucci, Elisa L. Priest, Timothy S. Church, Monica McGrath, Anthony Howell, Kristen Campbell, Kristina Karvinen, Aliya Ladha, Belinda Waltman, Michelle L. Geller, Cornelia Ulrich

Published December 15th 2005 by CRC Press – 608 pages

Series: Nutrition and Disease Prevention

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Description

“..it is increasingly clear that cancer is also a disease of inertia. In this book, a broadly multidisciplinary group presents the evidence and provides the recommendations. … The antidote to diseases of inertia is movement — let’s move!”

John Potter, M.D.,Ph.D., from the Foreword

The American Cancer Society estimates that a third of all cancer deaths could be prevented through avoidance of obesity and the rejection of sedentary lifestyles. The World Health Organization also supports this claim. Additionally, these and other organizations now recognize the role that activity can play in improving the quality of life for cancer patients.

Cancer Prevention and Management through Exercise and Weight Control provides us with the support necessary to make a call to action. Itbrings together the contributions of world-class researchers to lay out the evidence and a plan of attack for coping with this crisis. The text begins by focusing on the research methods used in assessing the complex associations between activity, energy balance, and risk and prognosis. In comprehensive literature reviews, the authors consider the role of physical activity in the incidence of individual cancers, then explore the mechanisms that might explain this connection. They continue with a look at the relation between weight and cancer incidence, including a consideration of genetics.

Research is also provided linking physical activity and weight control to a cancer patient’s quality of life and prognosis. The work concludes with ideas on how a plan of action might be implemented at the individual, clinical, and public health levels. It also provides guidance on incorporating exercise and diet recommendations into clinical oncology practice.

Reviews

“… This volume is one of the only of its kind dedicated to helping healthcare providers establish a concrete plan allowing patients to control weight gain through exercise in order to forestall cancer. Expert researchers do an outstanding job delineating this material within a logical framework, looking at ways that physical activity impacts the incidence of cancer in the breast, prostate and colorectal regions … it promotes a step away from drug-based therapies in favor of a more holistic approach to mitigating cancer risks. Bluntly, it’s a message [to] those practicing medicine in the Western world should pay close and careful attention to. … Recommended to all primary care physicians (in addition to dieticians and nurse practitioners) who serve as a patient’s first-line of defense against disease. In addition, this volume is highly recommended to all Health Science libraries because of its well-detailed and erudite examination of the influence physical activity has on the processes of cancer.”

— John Aiello, in The Electric Review

“… is a collection of 35 chapters organized into 8 sections, each covering different aspects of the complex relationships among body weight, physical activity, cancer incidence, and cancer prognosis. … Each chapter provides a short review and summary of research studies that have addressed a variety of methodological, epidemiological, experimental, and clinical issues related to the prevention and management of different cancers through physical activity and body-weight management. … The organization of the chapters into section is logical, and each chapter includes a list of contents at the beginning. … would be of value to any clinicians who works with patients who have cancer and those who have survived it. It would be an especially helpful resource to anyone who wants to learn more about the current state of knowledge in the relatively new linkage of cancer management, obesity, genetics, and physical activity.”

—Anthony E. Kincaid, Associate Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Creighton University, Nebraska, in Physical Therapy, Vol. 87, No. 5, p. 615, May 2007

“… The present volume is not a rehash of some long-past symposium. Rather, it contains 35 invited contributions, each with 50-200 references. … In all, this text provides a very thorough, evidence-based summary of current knowledge in a rapidly growing area of research, and it will be an important resource for those working on exercise, obesity and cancer.”

—Roy J. Shephard in Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, June 2007

"The research presented in McTiernan’s text is truly ground-breaking… Bluntly, it’s a message those practicing medicine in the Western world should pay close and careful attention to… Recommended to all primary care physicians (in addition to dieticians and nurse practitioners) who serve as a patient’s first-line of defense against disease. In addition, this volume is highly recommended to all Health Science libraries because of its well-detailed and erudite examination of the influence physical activity has on the processes of cancer."

--The Electric Review

Contents

Research Methods

Observational Studies and Intervention Trials in Exercise, Diet, and Cancer

Prevention Research: Ross L. Prentice

Physical Activity Measurement: Barbara E. Ainsworth and Karen J. Coleman

Measurement of Body Fat and Energy Balance: Melinda Irwin

Physical Activity and Cancer Incidence

Physical Activity and Cancer Incidence: Breast Cancer: Alpa V. Patel and Leslie Bernstein

Physical Activity and Colorectal Cancer: Martha L. Slattery

Physical Activity and Prostate Cancer Risk: Christine M. Friedenreich

Mechanisms Associating Physical Activity with Cancer Incidence

Physical Activity Effects on Sex Hormones: Anne McTiernan

Exercise and Insulin Resistance: Laura Lewis Frank

Exercise and Immune Function: Catherine M. Wetmore and Cornelia M. Ulrich

Exercise and Prostaglandins: María Elena Martínez

Mechanisms Associating Obesity with Cancer Incidence: Animal Models: Henry J. Thompson, Weiqin Jiang, and Zongjian Zhu

Physical Activity Intervention Studies in Humans: Anne McTiernan

Genetics, Physical Activity, and Cancer: Tuomo Rankinen

Overweight/Obesity and Cancer Incidence

Obesity, Weight Change, and Breast Cancer Incidence: Rachel Ballard–Barbash

Body Size, Obesity, and Colorectal Cancer: Martha L. Slattery

Endogenous Hormone Metabolism and Endometrial Cancer: Rudolf Kaaks and Annekatrin Lukanova

Obesity and Pancreatic Cancer: Dominique S. Michaud and Edward Giovannucci

Obesity and Overweight in Relation to Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus: Cathrine Hoyo and Marilie D. Gammon

Mechanisms Associating Obesity with Cancer Incidence

Obesity and Sex Hormones: Rudolph Kaaks and Anne McTiernan

Obesity and Insulin Resistance: George Blackburn and Belinda Waltman

Obesity, Cytokines, and Other Inflammatory Markers: Elisa L. Priest and Timothy S. Church

Mechanisms Associating Physical Activity with Cancer Incidence: Animal

Models: Lisa H. Colbert

Genetics, Obesity, and Cancer: Shelley Tworoger and Monica McGrath

Physical Activity and Cancer Prognosis

Quality of Life and Fatigue in Breast Cancer : Kerri Winters-Stone and Anna L. Schwartz

Exercise and Quality of Life in Survivors of Cancer Other Than Breast: Kerry S. Courneya, Kristin L. Campbell, Kristina H. Karvinen, and Aliya B. Ladha

Physical Activity and Physiological Effects Relevant to Prognosis: Page E. Abrahamson and Marilie D. Gammon

Energy Balance and Cancer Prognosis

Breast Cancer: Pamela J. Goodwin

Colon, Prostate, and Other Cancers: Cheryl L. Rock

Implementation   

Physical Activity and Energy Balance: Mikael Fogelholm

Diet and Other Means of Energy Balance Control: David Heber and Susan Bowerman

Population-Based Approaches to Increasing Physical Activity: Fiona Bull

Incorporating Exercise and Diet Recommendations into Primary Care Practice: Nicolaas P. Pronk

Promoting Physical Activity in Cancer Survivors: Anna L. Schwartz and Kerri Winters-Stone

Obesity and Early Stage Breast Cancer Outcome: Rowan T. Chlebowski and Michelle L. Geller

Incorporating Weight Control into Management of Patients with Early

Breast Cancer in the U.K.: Michelle Harvie and Anthony Howell

Index

Name: Cancer Prevention and Management through Exercise and Weight Control (Hardback) – CRC Press 
Description: Edited by Anne McTiernanContributors: George L. Blackburn, Pamela J. Goodwin, David Heber, Henry J. Thompson, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, Cathrine Hoyo, Page E. Abrahamson, Ross L. Prentice, Barbara Ellen Ainsworth, Melinda Irwin, Alpa V. Patel, Martha L. Slattery, Christine Friedenreich, Laura Lewis Frank, Neli Ulrich, Catherine Wetmore, Maria Elena Martinez, Tuomo Rankinen, Rudolf Kaaks, Dominique S. Michaud, Lisa H. Colbert, Shelley Tworoger, Kerri Winters, Anna L. Schwartz, Kerry S. Courneya, Cheryl Lee Rock, Mikael Fogelholm, Fiona C. L. Bull, Nicolaas P. Pronk, Rowan Chlebowski, Michelle Harvie, Susan Bowerman, Weiqin Jiang, Zongjian Zhu, Marilie D. Gammon, Karen J. Coleman, Leslie Bernstein, Annekatrin Lukanova, Edward Giovannucci, Elisa L. Priest, Timothy S. Church, Monica McGrath, Anthony Howell, Kristen Campbell, Kristina Karvinen, Aliya Ladha, Belinda Waltman, Michelle L. Geller, Cornelia Ulrich. “..it is increasingly clear that cancer is also a disease of inertia. In this book, a broadly multidisciplinary group presents the evidence and provides the recommendations. … The antidote to diseases of inertia is movement...
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