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Green Tea Supplement Prevents Prostate Cancer in High-Risk Men

American Association for Cancer Research, April 20, 2005
Researchers believe green tea catechins have powerful antioxidant properties

WEDNESDAY, April 20 -- A supplement containing antioxidants from green tea was 90 percent effective in preventing prostate cancer in men at high risk for the disease.

There are many benefits to drinking green tea, but you'll need to drink 12 cups a day to get the amount of catechins consumed in the study.

That's the conclusion of an Italian study that found after a year of taking green tea catechins, only one man in a group of 32 who were at higher risk of prostate cancer actually developed the disease, while nine men in a group of 30 high-risk men who took a placebo developed prostate cancer.

'To our knowledge, this is the first study showing that green tea catechins (GTC) have potent chemoprevention activity for human prostate cancer,' said study author Saverio Bettuzzi, an associate professor of biochemistry in the School of Medicine at the University of Parma in Italy.

Findings from the study were presented April 20 at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting, in Anaheim, Calif.

Other than skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common cancer affecting men. More than 230,000 American men are diagnosed with this disease each year, according to the American Cancer Society. Since many prostate cancers are found in their early stages, about 99 percent of those diagnosed can expect to live at least five years, while up to 92 percent survive for at least 10 years after their diagnosis. However, prostate cancer can be deadly. The disease claims the lives of more than 30,000 men in the United States annually, making it the second largest cancer killer in men.

Bettuzzi explained that while other studies, including his own previous work, had shown that green tea could inhibit prostate cancer cell growth in laboratory models, the researchers wanted to know if it would work in humans.

They recruited 62 men at high risk of developing prostate cancer because they already had precancerous lesions, which often turn into cancer within a year.

The men were between the ages of 45 and 75. The researchers excluded vegetarians because they may already have a lower risk of developing prostate cancer, men who already consumed green tea, and men taking antioxidant supplements or hormone therapy.

Thirty two of the men were asked to take a 200-milligram pill containing green tea catechins three times daily for a year; the other 30 men were given a placebo.

Biopsies were conducted at six months, and then again a year later.

Remarkably, only one man in the treatment group was diagnosed with prostate cancer, while nine men in the control group developed the disease.

'A projection of our data suggests that up to 90 percent of chemoprevention efficacy could be obtained by GTC administration in men prone to developing prostate cancer such as the elderly, African-Americans and those with a family history of prostate cancer,' Bettuzzi said.

He said to consume an amount equivalent to that used in the study, you would have to drink 12 to 15 cups of tea daily, and that while supplements are commercially available, their quality cannot be assured and they may contain caffeine, or more alarmingly, pesticides or other contaminants. Please Note: Young Again's Green Tea Supplements contain no caffeine and are certified free of any pesticides and contaminants

Bettuzzi also said his findings would be confirmed in a larger study.

More information

For more information on tea's potential cancer prevention abilities, search the Young Again Site for numerous articles and studies on green tea.

SOURCES: Saverio Bettuzzi, Ph.D., associate professor, biochemistry, School of Medicine, University of Parma, Italy; Jay Brooks, M.D., chairman, hematology/oncology, Ochsner Clinic Foundation Hospital, New Orleans; April 19, 2005, presentation, American Association for Cancer Research, annual meeting, Anaheim, Calif.

Second Opinion Health Alert
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November 22, 2006
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Popular beverage reduces your risk of invasive cancer by 89%

We all have cancer. Men and women alike have cancer cells in their bodies. But most of the time, our immune system keeps them from growing and becoming deadly. When doctors find these cells, they call it intraepithelial neoplasia. There's nothing to worry about with type of cancer. It's when the cancer invades that you get in trouble.

The good news is a popular beverage can prevent cancer from becoming invasive 89% of the time. A new study followed 60 men with biopsy proven prostate cancer. All of them had intraepithelial neoplasia. The cancer had yet to invade.

The researchers gave each of the participants a green tea supplement or a placebo and followed them for a year. The men taking the green tea took 600 mg daily of green tea catechins (a type of bioflavonoid). What the researchers found was amazing.

Only 3.3% of the active treatment group developed cancer compared to 30% of the placebo group. That's an incredible 89% reduction in the number of cases where cancer turned invasive.

The researchers indicated the active catechins in green tea were the reason for its success. Green tea has 30-60 mg of these bioflavonoids per serving. To get the level of protection seen by the researchers in this study, you will need up to 10 cups per day.

I've often said there is only one beverage you could drink instead of water. It's green tea. And this study shows why. But it's not the only study that shows green tea's anticancer abilities. Another study demonstrated that green tea chemicals can induce apoptosis (programmed cell death) in leukemia cells. That's the best way to defeat cancer. Get the cells to commit suicide.

Since green tea has a nearly 90% reduction in a common invasive cancer, and it causes cell death in another type of cancer, I'm sure it will work wonders in most other cancers as well. Please feel free to drink as much green tea as you like.

You can get green tea extracts easily at health food stores and on the Internet. If you don't like the taste of green tea - or prefer water - then these are an excellent way to get green tea's protection.

Yours for better health and medical freedom,
Robert Jay Rowen, MD

Ref: Cancer Res. 2006;66:1234-1240; Leuk Res. 2006;30:707-712.
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