THE secret of green tea’s anti-cancer properties has been uncovered.
Numerous studies suggest that green tea helps protect against a range of cancers, including lung, prostate and breast cancer. This has been attributed to an antioxidant called epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG). Now Hirofumi Tachibana’s team at Kyushu University in Japan has shown that EGCG inhibits tumour cell growth by binding to a receptor on cells called 67 LR. A variety of tumours produce abnormally high levels of 67 LR, and the receptor is thought to be involved in the spread of cancers through the body.
As part of the work,…
