UPDATE - Issue 29 - Spring 2007
Green tea benefits
Green tea may delay the onset of prostate cancer. Since prostate cancer occurs later in life, any delay would reduce the incidence.
Studies carried out by James Thorpe at Leicester Royal Infirmary, supported by one of our research grants, have shown that mice drinking water containing tea polyphenols have significantly smaller prostate cancers than mice drinking plain water. The next phase of this exciting research is a small scale human trial involving eighteen volunteer cancer sufferers. Six will receive the green tea component catechin, six another component theaflavin, and the remaining six neither polyphenol.