Nutrition and Cancer

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Can cancer risk be reduced through a healthy diet or lifestyle? Many studies have been conducted on the role of nutrition and physical activity in cancer prevention. This has resulted in recommendations for cancer prevention. Far less research is conducted on nutrition and cancer progression, but the evidence is increasing that a healthy diet may also play a beneficial role for cancer survivors. Join this online course and learn more about the role of nutrition in the occurrence and progression of cancer. You will learn how nutrition is involved in cancer occurrence, cancer treatment, and progression. And you will discover what the evidence-base is for dietary guidelines.

This online course focuses on a wide range of dietary exposures (including vegetables, meat, dietary supplements, alcohol) and lifestyle factors (including body composition and physical activity) in relation to the occurrence and progression of the most common types of cancer, such as large bowel cancer, breast cancer, prostate cancer, and lung cancer.

For whom?

Dieticians and physicians often get questions from cancer patients about what they can do themselves to help their recovery process. After completing the course you will have gained a solid scientific basis to better weigh and interpret all the information available on nutrition and cancer and to take care of your own health and/or that of your patients.

This online course is especially valuable for professionals (in training) from various fields related to nutrition or cancer (e.g. nutritionists, epidemiologists, health policy makers, physicians, caregivers, nutrition educators, biologists and food scientists).

This course, is part of theNutrition and Disease Professional Certificate Program of Wageningen University & Research. Did you already complete Nutrition, Heart Disease and Diabetes? That is the other course in this Professional Certificate Program.

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Ellen Kampman
Ellen Kampman

Ellen Kampman is a nutritional epidemiologist and Chair in Nutrition and Disease at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

Her research focuses on the role of lifestyle in cancer prevention and prognosis. Her group conducts observational and intervention studies in high and low/medium income countries. She published more than 200 original scientific peer-reviewed papers and book chapters, is a member of (inter)national advisory and scientific committees, and is senior editor of the AACR journal Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. She obtained research grants from governmental and non-governmental bodies (~ 15m) and supervised more than 20 PhD students.

Ellen studied Nutrition and Health at Wageningen University, was a visiting fellow at the Boston Harvard School of Public Health and received postdoctoral training at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle.

Fränzel van Duijnhoven
Fränzel van Duijnhoven

Fränzel van Duijnhoven obtained her Master of Science degree in biomedical sciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in 2001, and her Master of Science degree in genetic epidemiology at Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in 2004.

During her PhD-project at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, she studied postmenopausal hormone therapy in combination with genetic variants in relation to mammographic density, an intermediate endpoint in breast carcinogenesis. She received her PhD degree in cancer epidemiology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in 2006.

From 2007 to 2010, she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands, where she was mainly involved in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study. In the international EPIC study, she investigated dietary, lifestyle and genetic factors in association with the risk of colorectal and pancreatic cancer.

Currently, she works as an Assistant Professor at the Division of Human Nutrition and Health at Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Her research is focused on the role of dietary and lifestyle factors in the development and progression of sporadic as well as hereditary colorectal cancer (i.e. Lynch syndrome). Her research is particularly directed at investigating underlying mechanisms by evaluating associations of lifestyle factors in specific (genetic) subgroups and by evaluating gene-lifestyle interactions in an integrative epidemiological setting. She collaborates with several investigators and cohort consortia around the world and has published over 100 articles in international peer-reviewed journals.

Dieuwertje Kok
Dieuwertje Kok

The research of Dr. Dieuwertje Kok focusses on the relation between nutrition and cancer with a strong emphasis on mechanistic and clinical research. She wants to integrate knowledge from different disciplines to better understand risk factors for cancer development and progression. As a consequence, her work is strongly characterized by a multidisciplinary approach. Currently, she is working on the integration of epigenetic, transcriptomic, metagenomic and other complex molecular datasets from animal and human studies with a strong link to intestinal health and cancer research in clinical practice.