Cancer risk with folic acid supplements: a systematic review and meta-analysis

TN Wien, E Pike, T Wisløff, A Staff, S Smeland… - BMJ open, 2012 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective To explore if there is an increased cancer risk associated with folic acid
supplements given orally. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies …

Folate and DNA methylation

A Ly, L Hoyt, J Crowell, YI Kim - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2012 - liebertpub.com
Significance: The progressive, dose-dependent, and potentially reversible epigenetic
changes observed in cancer present new opportunities in cancer risk modification and …

American Cancer Society guidelines on nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention.

LH Kushi, C Doyle, M McCullough… - CA: a cancer …, 2012 - search.ebscohost.com
Abstract The American Cancer Society (ACS) publishes Nutrition and Physical Activity
Guidelines to serve as a foundation for its communication, policy, and community strategies …

Dietary supplements and cancer prevention: balancing potential benefits against proven harms

ME Martínez, ET Jacobs, JA Baron… - Journal of the …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Nutritional supplementation is now a multibillion-dollar industry, and about half of all US
adults take supplements. Supplement use is fueled in part by the belief that nutritional …

White blood cell global methylation and IL-6 promoter methylation in association with diet and lifestyle risk factors in a cancer-free population

FF Zhang, RM Santella, M Wolff, MA Kappil… - Epigenetics, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Altered levels of global DNA methylation and gene silencing through methylation of
promoter regions can impact cancer risk, but little is known about their environmental …

[PDF][PDF] Major classes of phytonutriceuticals in vegetables and health benefits: A review

JS Dias - Journal of Nutritional Therapeutics, 2012 - pdfs.semanticscholar.org
Vegetables are essential for well-balanced diets since they supply phytonutriceuticals.
About 3 billion people in the world are malnourished due to imbalanced diets. Regular …

Role of homocysteine in end-stage renal disease

CC Wu, CM Zheng, YF Lin, L Lo, MT Liao, KC Lu - Clinical biochemistry, 2012 - Elsevier
Patients on dialysis have a substantially higher mortality rate compared with the general
population. Dialysis is usually associated with an increased plasma level of homocysteine …

[HTML][HTML] Choline intake and risk of lethal prostate cancer: incidence and survival

EL Richman, SA Kenfield, MJ Stampfer… - The American journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
Background: Meat, milk, and eggs have been inconsistently associated with the risk of
advanced prostate cancer. These foods are sources of choline—a nutrient that may affect …

Meta-analysis of cancer risk in folic acid supplementation trials

JE Baggott, RA Oster, T Tamura - Cancer epidemiology, 2012 - Elsevier
Several reports suggest that folate has a procarcinogenic effect. Folate has a unique role
because its coenzymes are needed for de novo purine and thymine nucleotide biosynthesis …

Folate degradation due to ultraviolet radiation: possible implications for human health and nutrition

DC Borradale, MG Kimlin - Nutrition reviews, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Folate is essential for human health in the prevention of megaloblastic anemia and neural
tube birth defects and plays important roles in cardiovascular disease and cancer …