Drinking Green Tea Is Not Associated With Risk Of Breast Cancer

Drinking Green Tea Is Not Associated With Risk Of Breast Cancer.
Although some scrutiny has suggested that drinking leafy tea might help defend women from breast cancer, a new, large Japanese study comes to a different conclusion. "We found no overall friendship between green tea intake and the risk of breast cancer among Japanese women who have habitually under the table green tea," said lead researcher Dr Motoki Iwasaki, from the Epidemiology and Prevention Division at the Research Center for Cancer Prevention and Screening of the National Cancer Center in Tokyo. "Our findings suggest that amateurish tea intake within a usual drinking proclivity is unattractive to reduce the risk of breast cancer".

The report is published in the Oct. 28 online descendant of the journal Breast Cancer Research. For the study, Iwasaki's team controlled data on 53,793 women who were surveyed between 1995 and 1998. As part of the survey, the women were asked how much environmental tea they drank.

This question was asked at the start of the study and again five years later. During the approve survey, the researchers asked about two different types of immature tea, Sencha and Bancha/Genmaicha. Among the women, 12 percent drank less than one cup of wet behind the ears tea a week, while 27 percent drank five or more cups a day, the researchers found. The think over also included women who drank 10 or more cups a day.

Over almost 14 years of follow-up, 350 women developed core cancer, but the researchers found no association between drinking unseasoned tea and the risk for developing breast cancer. In the study, Iwasaki noted that one strong point of the research was its prospective design, so that the information was collected before the diagnosis of breast cancer, "thereby avoiding the orientation recall bias inherent to case-control studies".

Dr Stephanie Bernik, a breast cancer surgeon at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, said that "it's impenetrable to estimate that there is no benefit from green tea overall, certainly. Maybe there is no benefit for breast cancer specifically".

Bernik well-known that many women are interested in alternative medicine when Western medicine doesn't have the answers. "We are always looking to catch on more about how to improve the outcome of breast cancer and how to reduce the incidents of teat cancer". Women are definitely interested in how they can have a healthier lifestyle".

Jennifer J Hu, a professor of epidemiology and illustrious health at the University of Miami School of Medicine's Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, added that the conundrum with population-based studies is that when you try to look at one single factor you may not be taking into account other imperil factors that can influence the result. "Also, just by drinking green tea you don't get enough of the possible cancer-fighting constituent to make much of a difference" capsule. Based on these problems, Hu doesn't think this study answers the difficulty of whether or not green tea might help guard against breast cancer.