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Dietary Compounds Drive Epigenetic Regulation and Modifications in Blood Cancer: A Critical Review

Common dietary compounds show promise modulating cancer-related genes in laboratory studies, though safe clinical doses remain unclear.

This review summarizes how dietary phytochemicals (curcumin, resveratrol, quercetin, EGCG) modulate epigenetic mechanisms including DNA methylation and histone modifications in blood cancers. Clinical translation is limited by bioavailability challenges and lack of clinical trial validation.

What the study was

Study design
Critical review
Population
Blood cancer patients and preclinical models
Category
Prevention
Maturity
Exploratory
Journal
Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Why it surfaced

Review only; no clinical validation data for dietary epigenetics in blood cancers.

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