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Green Tea & Cancer
24 Nov 2020
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Through the videos below, I learnt about remarkable properties of green tea in prevention and treatment of cancer!

Articles by Dr Greger:

Videos by Dr Greger:

(2010) Asian Paradox

(1 min) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Why do people living in Asia have lower heart disease and lung cancer rates than would be expected, given their level of smoking?"

(2012) Why Do Asian Women Have Less Breast Cancer?

(3 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Mushrooms, green tea, and soy consumption may decrease breast cancer risk, but how many mushrooms, how much green tea, and what's the best soy strategy?"

(2017) Can Green Tea Help Prevent Cancer?

(4 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Within 40 minutes of green tea consumption, we get a boost in antioxidant power in our bloodstream, and, within 60 minutes, an upregulation of DNA repair."

(2017) Can Green Tea Help Treat Cancer?

(6 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "A mixture of results have been reported using green tea to try to stop or reverse the progression of oral cancer, lung cancer, cervical cancer, and colon cancer."

(2013) Cancer, Interrupted: Green Tea

(3 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Using the cooked meat carcinogen PhIP to turn normal breast cells cancerous, researchers explore the use of green tea to interrupt this malignant transformation."

(2016) Preventing Prostate Cancer with Green Tea

(4 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "One third of men in their 30s may already have tiny, cancerous tumors in their prostates. How much tea would we have to drink to build up cancer-suppressing levels in our prostate tissue?"

(2016) Treating Prostate Cancer with Green Tea

(5 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "Green tea is put to the test against precancerous lesions, prostate cancer, and metastatic cancer, and compared to the effects of black tea."

(2012) Antimutagenic Activity of Green Versus White Tea

(2 mins) Transcript. Dr Greger's summary: "The ability of green versus white tea to protect against in vitro DNA damage caused by a cooked chicken carcinogen (heterocyclic amine)."

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