Cancer Prevention Through Employ of Appropriate Diet in Daily Schedule

Improving prevention compliance through appropriate incentives

This paper theoretically and empirically explores the effects of insurance parameters and a complementary information environment on patient ́s primary prevention activity in the context of a managed care organisation. The theoretical model is based on a principal-agent setting in which the patient is acting as an agent in deciding about his preventive effort. Both for the patient and for the in...

Planning Appropriate Cervical Cancer Prevention Programs

Prevention of Coronary Artery Disease through Diet

Our understanding of the potential role of diet in the prevention and risk reduction of coronary artery disease (CAD) has evolved in the past 100 years. Data on trends in food consumption and ecological studies are the early evidences that showed associa‐ tions between prevalence and fat intake across and within countries. The last 50 years of epidemiology and clinical trials have focused on th...

Diet and Pancreatic Cancer Prevention

Pancreatic cancer is without any doubt the malignancy with the poorest prognosis and the lowest survival rate. This highly aggressive disease is rarely diagnosed at an early stage and difficult to treat due to its resistance to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Therefore, there is an urgent need to clarify the causes responsible for pancreatic cancer and to identify preventive strategies to reduce...

Diet and colorectal cancer prevention

The majority of cancers are sporadic and epidemiological estimates suggest that up to 80% of