Interview with Marta Carriço, nutritionist at the Champalimaud Foundation.

Marta Carriço is a nutritionist in the Risk Assessment Programme team (Programa de Oncorrisco) at the Champalimaud Clinical Centre. In this interview, she explains what is known – and not known – about the impact of eating habits on the prevention of oncological disease, strongly favouring the Mediterranean diet.

In the case of cancer (as in other diseases) any research study involving human volunteers that is intended to acquire medical knowledge about a potential new drug, vaccine or biological substance against a specific type of cancer – in which these are administered to a group of participants – is called a clinical trial.