Nutrition, lifestyle and cancer risk: preventing with style

Aula Magna Dipartimento di Agraria Viale Italia 39/A - Sassari
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The Department of Agriculture, the Graduate School, and the National Institute of Tumors are organizing the event "Nutrition, lifestyle and cancer risk: preventing with ... style" in Sassari.

Program

Giuseppe Pulina, full professor - Department of Agriculture - UNISS will be chairing the event.

3:00 pm Greetings Rector, Director of the Department of Agriculture, Director of the Graduate School UNISS, Coordinator of the PhD Course in Agricultural Sciences

3:30 pm Claudia Agnoli (Italian Institute of Tumors) 
Nutritional epidemiology and cancer: from ecological studies to large cohort studies Nutrition and cancer: first hypotheses and experimental evidence. The first epidemiological studies on diet and cancer. The large EPIC cohort study.

4:00 pm Valeria Pala (Italian Institute of Tumors) 
Lifestyle and cancer: from evidence synthesis to prevention recommendations Meta-analyses, confounders, and systematic reviews: how dietary guidelines for cancer are developed; the main evidence on the association between diet and cancer; summary of recommendations for cancer prevention.

4:30 pm Sabina Sieri (Italian Institute of Tumors) 
A look to the future in changing Italy: the new YouGoody study. Why a new study is needed. Study design; old questions and new answers: the potential of YouGoody.

5:00 pm Conclusions 
Antonio Cossu, full professor - Department of Medicine, Surgery, and Pharmacy - UNISS

Training credits are available for students and PhD candidates upon request to the Presidents of the Degree Course and Course Coordinators.