Green tea extract ‘is cancer aid’
A green tea extract may help patients with a form of leukaemia, a study says. The tea, discovered in China nearly 5,000 years ago, has long been thought to have health benefits.
But the team from the Mayo Clinic in the US found it appeared to improve the condition of four patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL).
Experts said the Leukaemia Research journal study was interesting but more research was needed.
CLL is a blood and bone marrow cancer which affects white blood cells and is the commonest type of leukaemia with over 3,000 new cases – mainly in the over 60s – diagnosed each year in the UK.
Source: BBC.
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