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Tea and health - part 1: cancer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2013

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In a nutshell

There is good evidence from animal and lab studies that tea can have an anti-cancer effect. A significant amount of human observational data also shows a protective association, e.g. in relation to colorectal, prostate and breast cancer. This has been more in relation to green tea than to black tea.

There is so far very little evidence from human clinical trials.

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Arbor Clinical Nutrition Updates , Volume 290 , March 2008 , pp. 1 - 3
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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