Chemoprevention
- Common human cancers can be prevented by chemoprevention
- Reduction of cancer by use of non-cytotoxic pharmaceutical agents or naturally occurring nutrients
- The market for cancer chemoprevention is emerging
- Cancer risk-groups are already identified in the population
- Multi-target products(Colotech´s product) may have an advantage over single-target agents(selective COX-2 inhibitors)
- Chemoprevention must have documented effect
- Chemoprevention must be safe
- Chemoprevention must be easy
- Chemoprevention must be inexpensive
- Interesting links
www.cancer.gov/prevention
www.cancerworld.org
www.icnet.uk
www.eortc.be
www.yourcancerrisk.harvard.edu