Cancer Prevention
Animal and cell line studies have shown chemopreventive activity of tea
Published in Health and Medicine Week, May 19th, 2003
"Consumption of tea (Camellia sinensis) has been associated with many health benefits including the prevention of cancer. Based on in vitro experiments, many mechanisms have been proposed to account for the cancer chemopreventive activity," researchers in the United States report.
"The importance of some of these mechanisms in vivo remains in question due to an incomplete understanding of the bioavailability of the polyphenolic compounds in tea," wrote J.D. Lambert and colleagues, Rutgers State University, Department of Biological Chemistry.
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