Relationship between Environmental Risk Factors and Cancer
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2024) | Viewed by 874
Special Issue Editors
Interests: PRDM genes; cancers; signal transduction; cancer; cell cycle; apoptosis; androgens; estrogens; prostate cancer; breast cancer; oxidative stress; steroid receptors; testicular germ cell tumors
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Interests: PRDM genes; steroid receptors; cancers
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Interests: PRDM genes; cancer; transcriptional regulation
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Interests: cancer; PRDM genes; transcriptional regulation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Carcinogenesis is a multistage and multistep process involving mutations in distinct classes of genes (i.e., oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, apoptosis genes and DNA repair genes). Gene alterations disrupt the regulation of physiological cellular functions including cell growth and differentiation control, accounting for cell transformation. Several epidemiological studies revealed that environmental factors (chemical, physical and biological agents) represent the main factors responsible for cancer development. The most common environmental factors, such as smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, high-fat diet, can, in different manners, induce genetic alterations. Inhibition of carcinogenic exposures, wherever possible, should be the goal of cancer prevention programs. The aim of the current Special Issue was deepening our knowledge concerning the risk factors responsible of cancer onset, their mechanism of action and the possible strategies for preventing or counteracting their efficacy.
Dr. Erika Zazzo
Dr. Ciro Abbondanza
Dr. Monica Rienzo
Dr. Amelia Casamassimi
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cancer
- cancer risk factors
- environmental agents
- cancer prevention
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