Study hints at tea's cancer prevention potential
Research carried out by scientists form University of Texas found green tea may prevent the onset of oral cancer. Subjects with pre-malignant lesions were given green tea extracts, equivalent to eight to ten cups of tea, and were more clinically responsive than those given the placebo. Although at the end of the two-year study period there was no difference in oral cancer development overall between those who took green tea and those who did not, patients who presented with mild to moderate dysplasia had a longer time to develop oral cancer if they took green tea extract.