New UAB Center: Is Early Teen Diet Critical to Lower Lifetime Breast, Prostate Cancer Risk?

UAB will announce a new, $10.4 million federal Center for Nutrient-Gene Interaction to examine how dietary compounds (polyphenols, bioflavonoids) may lower the risk of developing cancer. Among the foods to be studied are soy, green tea and grapes and how they affect humans at genetic and proteomic levels.

September 16, 2003

WHAT:

 

UAB will announce a new, $10.4 million federal Center for Nutrient-Gene Interaction to examine how dietary compounds (polyphenols, bioflavonoids) may lower the risk of developing cancer. Among the foods to be studied are soy, green tea and grapes and how they affect humans at genetic and proteomic levels. One research project will build on previous UAB animal studies that indicate that polyphenols or bioflavonoids found in the target foods can lower the lifetime risk of breast and prostate cancer — but only if eaten in early adolescence. Embargoed news release will be available 9/17/2003 at www.uab.edu/news.

 

 

 

WHEN:

 

Thursday, September 18, 2003
10 a.m.

 

 

 

WHERE:

 

Finley Conference Room
Kaul Human Genetics Building
720 20th Street South
Birmingham, AL

 

 

 

WHO:

 

Stephen Barnes, Ph.D., director, UAB Center for Nutrient-Gene Interaction

"Just when pizza and chips are most attractive, youngsters probably should be eating products made of soy genistein and other polyphenols.”

 

 

 

VISUALS:

 

Dietary products, supermarket foods, robotic and laser equipment.

SATELLITE FEED COORDINATES (for sound bites & b-roll):

Thursday, September 18, 2003
11:15-11:30 a.m. ET

Telstar 5
Transponder 19
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Orbital slot: 97 degrees west
Down Link Frequency: 4080.000 Vertical

 

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BACKGROUND: The National Cancer Institute is beefing up its chemoprevention studies as scientists can now take advantage of technological advances of the human genome era to look at how genis and proteins act in relation to environmental factors such as nutrition. Other CNGI’s were awarded to Harvard Univ., George Washington Univ. and Albert Einstein College of Medicine (NYC).