This book comprises proceedings from the Third International Conference on Advances in Nutrition and Cancer, held in Naples in May 2012. This highly multidisciplinary meeting analyzed "nutrition and cancer" from different perspectives and on the basis of distinct and up-to-date experimental approaches. Knowledge on the relation between lifestyle, diet, and cancer is explored in a number of contributions, and the role of dietary intervention in cancer patients is discussed. Issues of vital interest to the research community, such as epidemiological and experimental oncology (genetics, epigenetics, and the mechanisms of action of natural compounds in the diet), receive detailed consideration. A further key topic is the emerging molecular technologies (the "omics") that can cast light on the interplay between nutrition and human malignancies. Chapters take the form of reviews that include sections presenting expert opinions.

Part I: Life Style, Diet and Cancer: The role of metabolic carcinogenesis in cancer causation and prevention: evidence from the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition

Obesity, energy balance and cancer: a mechanistic perspective
Fruits and vegetables. Updating the epidemiologic evidence for the WCRF-AICR lifestyle recommendations for cancer prevention
The diet as a cause of human prostate cancer
Mediterranean dietary pattern and chronic diseases
Dietary salt intake and risk of gastric cancer
Alcoholic beverages and carbonated soft drinks: consumption and gastrointestinal cancer risks
Part II: Natural Dietary Molecules: Anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer drugs from nature
Selenium and cancer: a story that should not be forgotten - Insights from genomics
Resveratrol: from basic studies to bedside
Quercetin: a pleiotropic kinase inhibitor against cancer
Sulforaphane as a promising molecule for fighting cancer
Part III: Genetics and Epigenetics:Functions, aberrations and advances for chromatin modulation in cancer
Epigenetics and epidemiology: models of study and examples
Dietary epigenetics in cancer and aging
Breast cancer and the importance of early life nutrition
Part IV: Olive Oil in Cancer Prevention
Olive oil and other dietary lipids in breast cancer
A holistic approach to study the effects of natural antioxidants on inflammation and liver cancer
Extra virgin olive oil: from composition to 'molecular fastronomy'
Part V: Life Style Prevention of Cancer: Life style prevention of cancer recurrence: the yin and the yang
Part VI: Emerging Breakthroughs: New perspective for an old antidiabetic drug: metformin as anticancer agent
Gut microbes, diet and cancer
Inflammatory angiogenesis and the tumor microenvironment as targets for cancer therapy and prevention
Nutriomes and personalised nutrition for DNA damage prevention, telomere integrity maintenance and cancer growth control
Novel approaches inmelanoma prevention and therapy
Concluding remarks.