RT Generic
T1 Angioprevention of Urologic Cancers by Plant-Derived Foods.
A1 Garcia-Caballero, Melissa
A1 Torres-Vargas, Jose Antonio
A1 Dacil-Marrero, Ana
A1 Martinez-Poveda, Beatriz
A1 Medina, Miguel Angel
A1 Quesada, Ana R
K1 angiogenesis
K1 angioprevention
K1 bladder cancer
K1 chemoprevention
K1 kidney cancer
K1 phytochemicals
K1 prostate cancer
K1 urologic cancer
AB The number of cancer cases worldwide keeps growing unstoppably, despite the undeniable advances achieved by basic research and clinical practice. Urologic tumors, including some as prevalent as prostate, bladder or kidney tumors, are no exceptions to this rule. Moreover, the fact that many of these tumors are detected in early stages lengthens the duration of their treatment, with a significant increase in health care costs. In this scenario, prevention offers the most cost-effective long-term strategy for the global control of these diseases. Although specialized diets are not the only way to decrease the chances to develop cancer, epidemiological evidence support the role of certain plant-derived foods in the prevention of urologic cancer. In many cases, these plants are rich in antiangiogenic phytochemicals, which could be responsible for their protective or angiopreventive properties. Angiogenesis inhibition may contribute to slow down the progression of the tumor at very different stages and, for this reason, angiopreventive strategies could be implemented at different levels of chemoprevention, depending on the targeted population. In this review, epidemiological evidence supporting the role of certain plant-derived foods in urologic cancer prevention are presented, with particular emphasis on their content in bioactive phytochemicals that could be used in the angioprevention of cancer.
PB MDPI AG
SN 1999-4923
YR 2022
FD 2022-01-21
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/21540
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/21540
LA en
NO García-Caballero M, Torres-Vargas JA, Marrero AD, Martínez-Poveda B, Medina MÁ, Quesada AR. Angioprevention of Urologic Cancers by Plant-Derived Foods. Pharmaceutics. 2022 Jan 21;14(2):256.
DS RISalud
RD Oct 24, 2025