The Cancer and Nutrition Network

THE FOUNDATION FOR PREVENTIVE ONCOLOGY, INC.

We are an independent, not-for-profit foundation already into our second decade of charitable service and dedicated to the advancement of preventive oncology – the new field of cancer prevention. Our Foundation's scientists have performed ground-breaking research in the field of cancer-fighting phytonutrients. These are plant-derived substances, such as indole carbinol and sulforaphane, that help to explain why plant-rich diets are so powerfully protective against breast cancer and other illnesses.  

The Foundation conducts its scientific studies through the Institute for Hormone Research, its biomedical research arm. The focus of this research is the role of steroid hormones in the causation and prevention of cancer.

The Foundation's investigations into the physiology and metabolism of steroid hormones through the Institute for Hormone Research have come to fruition in a series of clinical research initiatives in the area of chemoprevention. Institute researchers have made the discovery that certain naturally occurring substances in fruits and vegetables have the capacity to modulate hormone metabolism in humans. This discovery has important implications for the prevention of disease, especially in the prevention of breast, prostate, and colon cancer.

Foundation scientists have collaborated closely with many national and international institutions. Among these academic centers are The Rockefeller University; New York University Medical Center; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Mount Sinai Medical Center; Cabrini Medical Center; Dartmouth Medical School; Washington University Medical Center; the Meilahti Hospital, Finland; Tohoku University, Japan; and the Chinese Academy of Medicine in Beijing.

The results of Foundation-sponsored research have been reported on The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, CBS This Morning with Dr. Bob Arnot, NBC News Live at Five, Fox News Network, The MacNeil/Lehrer PBS production "Eat Smart," CNN, Lifetime, America's Talking, The TV Food Network, GLOBO International TV Brazil, and other cable network programs.

Articles discussing the Foundation's research have appeared in Reader's Digest, Prevention, Self, Ladies Home Journal, Redbook, Glamour, McCall's, Science News, and the CSPI Nutrition Action Health Letter. In July 1994, Warner Books published Dr. Michnovicz's book, "How to Reduce Your Risk of Breast Cancer," written with co-author Diane S. Klein. This well received work was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and Prevention Book Club.

The Center for Developmental Medicine is the Foundation's community service arm. The Center provides medical services to the developmentally disabled community. Its goal is to integrate programs of nutritional chemoprevention into the daily lives of the disabled. 

The Foundation's Cancer and Nutrition Network draws upon the discoveries of modern science and the age-old wisdom of the world's spiritual traditions to convey its message of hope and health..