Part I: An overview of cancer and its mechanisms
Chapter 1. Cancer overview (impact of cancer worldwide, main causes of cancer, most common types of cancer, main treatments) (Seyed/Ana)
Chapter 2. Mechanisms involved in carcinogenesis (e.g. apoptosis) (Devi)
Part II: Functional foods/nutraceuticals as chemopreventive agents
(identification of molecular targets of nutraceuticals; synthetic analogues of chemopreventive agents, clinical trials already performed)
Chapter 3. Tomato (lycopene and β-carotene) (Monica Rosa)
Chapter 4. Aromatic plants (essential oils) (Tarun) Chapter 5. Bee propolis (caffeic acid phenethyl ester) (Kamal)
Chapter 6. Brown algae (fucoxanthin) (Muhammad Ajmal)
Chapter 7. Cruciferous vegetables (indole-3-carbinol, Isothiocyanates) (Luigi)
Chapter 8. Crustacea (carotenoids namely astaxanthin) (Renald)
Chapter 9. Curcuma (curcumin) (Kamal)
Chapter 10. Fruits and vegetables (flavonoids, namely quercetin and resveratrol; dietary fibers, carotenoids) (Davide)
Chapter 11. Garlic (allylsulfur compounds) (Ipek)
Chapter 12. Ginger (gingerols and 6-shogaol) (Sinem)
Chapter 13. Saffron (crocin) (Mahdi)
Chapter 14. Olive leaf (oleuropein) (Mahdi)
Chapter 15. Honey (Fazlullah)
Chapter 16. Soybeans and phyto-estrogen rich foods (genistein, daidzein) (Azadeh)
Chapter 17. Tea (catechins including (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate) (Hari)
Chapter 18. Yoghurt and fermented foods (probiotics) (Roja)
Part III: The role of nutrients in the prevention of cancer
Chapter 19. Vitamins (namely C, D, E) (Mirele)
Chapter 20. Minerals (namely selenium) (Antoni)
Chapter 21. Dietary fibers/beta-glucan (Maria)
Chapter 22. Omega-3 fatty acids (Dunja)
About the Author: Prof. Seid Mahdi Jafari received his PhD in Food Process Engineering from the University of Queensland (Australia), in 2006. He has been working on the nanoemulsification and nanoencapsulation of food bioactive ingredients for the past 15 years. Now, as a full Professor, he is an academic member of GUASNR (Iran) and Adjunct Prof. in UVigo (Spain). He has published more than 290 papers in top-ranked International Food Science Journals (h-index=58 in Scopus) and 60 book chapters along with editing 36 books with Elsevier, Springer, and Taylor & Francis.
In Nov, 2015, he was awarded as one of the top 1% world scientists by Thomson Reuters (Essential Scientific Indicators) in the field of Biological Sciences. In Dec, 2017, he was selected as one of the top national researchers by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology. He has been awarded as one of the world's highly cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science), in Nov, 2018, 2019 and 2020; and a top reviewer in the field of agricultural and biological sciences by Publons (Sep, 2018 and 2019).
Seyed Mohammad Nabavi is a Senior Scientist at Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences.
Ana Sanches Silva is a researcher at the National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research (INIAV) in Vila do Conde, Portugal.
