Nutrition is an input to and foundation for health and development. Interaction of infection and malnutrition is well-documented. Better nutrition means stronger immune systems, less illness and better health.

Specially nutritional oncology is an increasingly active interdisciplinary field where cancer is investigated as both a systemic and local disease originating with the changes in the genome and progressing through a multi-step process which may be influenced at many points in its natural history by nutritional factors that could impact the prevention of cancer, the quality of life of cancer patients, and the risk of cancer recurrence in the rapidly increasing population of cancer survivors.

Molecular biology and genetics remain central to this interdisciplinary field which integrates basic science and its clinical application. Cancer results from the expression of genomic changes. Nutritional oncology seeks to modify the environmental factors influencing these genetic changes and their expression at every stage of carcinogenesis, from initiation of the cancer cell to its metastatic spread to other areas of the body.
Nutritional Oncology defines this rapidly emerging area of tremendous interest to researchers, a field poised to become a subfield of oncology. This reference provides an assessment of nutritional impact on the development and growth of cancer (or the prevention of such development and growth) as well as its role in cancer treatment.

Dear Friends, Clinical Nutrition has developed an important role in cancer prevention and therapy. Every day, more information about the relation between diet and oncology is being published. In order to discuss the latest achievements and future challenges in this field, we are organizing first Mongolian conference on nutrition and cancer.

The theme for 2010 is "THE ROLE OF NUTRITION: "Cancer Prevention and Treatment”

This event has the support of important international scientific Institutions and it will congregate experts in all nutritional aspects in oncology, including prevention, therapy and epidemiology.

Organizing Committee is preparing a meticulous program to explore recent concepts related to the complex interaction of diet, nutrition and cancer.

One of our main goals is to gather professionals from multidisciplinary fields involving cancer prevention and treatment with a nutritional point of view.

We look forward to welcoming you in the first Mongolian conference on nutrition and cancer.

See you in Mongolia,

Kind Regards,

Chinburen J, M.D.
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Head of Hepatopancreatic Surgery Department
National Cancer Center, Mongolia

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CONFERENCE AGENDA 12th MAR