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Green tea chemical used to treat cancer

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Green tea chemical used to treat cancer

By: Newstalk ZB staff | Latest Health News | Thursday August 23 2012 8:57

 

A chemical found in green tea has been used to treat two types of skin cancer.

The Daily Mail reports the extract is too weak to make an impact when consumed in tea, however when applied to cancer cells in a lab it makes two thirds of tumours shrink or disappear.

Scientists in Scotland have found the extract had no side effects on other cells or tissue.

Tests were done on two types of skin cancer - epidermoid carcinoma and melanoma - and in both studies, 40 percent of tumours vanished.

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