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Breast Cancer Breakthrough: Tea Power

Tea's latest credit offers new hope to cancer patients.

Drinking green tea may not only prevent cancer - it may also shrink tumors. University of Mississippi Medical Center researchers gave water mixed with a green tea anti-oxidant called EGCG to mice with breast cancer. After five weeks, their tumors were 66 percent smaller and 68 percent lighter than those in mice who drank just water.

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