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Curcumin: Towards molecularly targeted chemoprevention of cancer

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Ulrich Pfeffer , Adriana Amaro , Beatrice Bachmeier , Giovanna Angelini

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Everybody is at risk for cancer yet environmental factors, lifestyle and diet as well as genetic factors influence the individual cancer risk. Targeted or personalized cancer prevention is based on the knowledge of the molecular characteristics of the tumor to be prevented, the molecular mechanisms of action of the compounds to be used and the genetic make-up of the person who opts for prevention medicine. Genetic factors are to a certain extent specific for cancer types or even subtypes as it has been shown for breast cancer

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