Green tea used to prevent cancer
[2008-6-3]
According to a recent survey, green tea is the most common alternative medicine used by women to try and avoid cancer.
A study of almost 900 Australian women with a family history of breast cancer found that while green tea use is very high, it was still on the same level as other women, and just six per cent were using the teait specifically to block cancer.
The Melbourne cancer specialists behind the study said the results were reassuring because there was next to no evidence that supplements, green tea, specialist diets or physical therapies could do anything to ward off the disease.
The study, presented today at a major cancer conference in Chicago, is one of the biggest of its kind to investigate alternative therapy – such as green tea – use for disease prevention.
It showed that about 50 per cent use some sort of non-conventional therapy, with vitamins and supplements, a low fat diet, massage therapy, green tea and omega-3 fatty acid the most common.
Of those who took the therapies to avoid cancer, green tea was most widely used, followed by vitamins, a soy rich diet, a low fat diet and omega-3, none of which have proven disease-protective powers, Dr Field said.
Australia’complementary and alternative medicine industry is worth more than $2 billion and is growing fast. Advocates say more funding is needed for trials that prove products such as green tea work while opponents say the trend is potentially dangerous and call for more regulations.
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