Faculty in WSU’s School of Medicine and the Karmanos Cancer Institute are on the organizing committee of the first International Congress on Nutrition and Cancer to be held in Antalya, Turkey on May 19 - 23, 2008. 

The program will be packed with outstanding lectures, keynote talks, plenary sessions, oral presentations and poster discussions.  Attendance at this conference will ben an efficient way to keep current in a rapidly changing field.  Exciting sessions will be devoted to oxidative stress and inflamation; nutrition, physical activity and obesity; nutrigenomics; epigenetics; and chemoprevention.  Sessions will integrate the key disciplines of clinical, behavioral, animal model, and epidemiologic research.

Dr. Omer Kucuk, professor of Internal Medicine and Oncology, School of Medicine and the Karmanos Cancer Institute, will present at the conference on “Lycopene and soy isoflavones in prostate cancer treatment.” 

Papers presented at this meeting will be published in the journal, Nutrition and Cancer: An International Journal.

For further information about the conference, visit www.nutritioncancer2008.org.