Translating Nutrigenomics Research into Personalized and Precision Nutrition for Cancer Prevention and Cancer Survivors

Personalized and precision nutrition uses information about individual characteristics and responses to nutrients, foods, and dietary patterns to develop targeted nutrition recommendations that more effectively improve each person's diet and health. To date, most personalized and precision nutrition approaches have focused on addressing obesity and cardiometabolic diseases, with limited efforts targeting cancer prevention and cancer survivors.

Advances in understanding the biological basis of cancer and the role diet plays in cancer prevention and survival after cancer diagnosis mean that testing and applying such personalized and precision nutrition approaches in the cancer field is timely. This effort can leverage a deeper understanding of the interactions between dietary factors, individual genotypes, and the gut microbiome that affect the risk of cancer diagnosis and survival.