AACR-IASLC: Green Tea May Have Cancer Benefit
By Crystal Phend, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: January 13, 2010
Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
CORONADO, Calif. — Green tea may reduce the risk of developing lung cancer, particularly for smokers, according to a case-control study.
At least a cup a day was associated with a 5.16-fold lower lung cancer risk among Taiwanese adults (P<0.001), found I-Hsin Lin, MS, of the Chung Shan Medical University in Zhonghe City, Taiwan, and colleagues.
And for current and former smokers, regular green tea intake was associated with a 12.71-fold lower risk than abstaining (P<0.001), suggesting that the antioxidants in tea have "an inhibitory effect … elicited by smoking."
