Is Green Tea Effective in Fighting Breast Cancer?

Written on May 8, 2009 – 10:25 am | by Newsman |

Specialist and experts are finding ways to fight breast cancer. From natural methods where herbals are used and conventional methods where patients undergo chemotherapy. Options are given by doctors, specialist and experts to the people to fight breast cancer or preventing breast cancer to occur. Their care many choices from the food you eat, keeping your body fit and healthy and the right medicines a persons to swallow.

But there is study that you may not considered it yet to fight breast cancer and that is green tea. Well questions are raised and one of this question is: Is green tea effective in fighting breast cancer? In some studies, green tea contains antioxidants, flavonoids and polyphenols in which can aid in preventing the formation of cancer cells. If green tea have these, then green tea can stop or prevent cancer cells and prevent the progression. In one study where women with various stages of breast cancer, It was known and found out that women who drink tea the most has experience the least amount of cancer progression. This means that tea is effective in fighting breast cancer.

But how about green tea? What is special about the green tea? Well there are recent studies about this green tea that is very effective in in fighting off cancer cells and other forms of cancer cells. In this study, men with prostate and breast cancer reduce the risk when they are drinking green tea than those men who do not. It also goes well to women with ovarian cancer who drank green tea a lot and these women lives longer than those who have not.

It was also been discovered that green tea slows the growth of colorectal, esophagal, and stomach cancer cells and stunt the development of skin, bladder and pancreatic cancer cells. And the study also show that the subjects who drink green tea lived longer and sometimes have fully recovered from cancer. Now the question is: Is green tea a miracle cure? It is not known that green tea can really reduce different types of cancer which are not metioned in this article. It also is not proven that it a patient can really have a full recovery from cancer. But drinking green tea is a preventative plan and can reduce the risk of developing cancer.



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