Dietary Intake and Ovarian Cancer
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2019) | Viewed by 10416
Special Issue Editors
2. Department of Life Sciences and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, 00168 Rome, Italy
Interests: personalized medicine; precision medicine; gynecologic oncology; clinical research
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2. Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Digestive Diseases, CEMAD, Gastroenterology Department, Fondazione Policlinico Gemelli, IRCCS, 00168 Rome, Italy
Interests: gastroenterology; oncology; digestive cancer; diverticular disease; cancer prevention; inflammatory bowel diseases; microbial communities; bioinformatics and computational biology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ovarian cancer is the seventh most common cause of cancer death among women worldwide. The majority of cases are usually diagnosed at an advanced stage, contributing to poor survival. The noticeable relationship between ovarian cancer incidence and geographical regions suggested that dietary habits and ethnic variations are potentially modifiable factors, whose etiologic role in ovarian cancer risk, however, remains undefined. Although multiple epidemiologic studies have explored the associations between dietary intake and the risk of ovarian cancer, no definite conclusion have been drawn, and the dietary intake varieties, as well as pathological types of ovarian cancer, increase the complexity of this research topic. On the other hand, evidence based on experimental studies suggested that nutritional status improves surgical and oncological outcomes during ovarian cancer treatment. The scientific community needs to strengthen its evidence base and continue to enhance its knowledge on the role of diet (in all forms), in order to include dietary intake evaluation and nutritional status in the multifactorial fight against ovarian cancer.
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Scambia
Prof. Dr. Antonio Gasbarrini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Ovarian cancer
- Dietary intake
- Nutritional status
- Nutrition therapy
- Disease-related malnutrition
- ERAS protocols in gynecologicic oncology
- Personalized Medicine
