Upfront. Avocados may help prevent oral cancer, OSU study shows.

D'Ambrosio also authored an accompanying editorial in Seminars in Cancer Biology entitled "Phytonutrients: A more natural approach toward cancer prevention." "The future is ripe for identifying fruits and vegetables and individual phytonutrients with cancer preventing activity," wrote D'Ambrosio in the editorial. "As we identify the molecular mechanisms and targets by which individual phytonutrients prevent cancer, we may be able to improve upon nature by formulating phytonutrient cocktails for specific cancer and individual susceptibility risk."