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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.

Available: 5+ years (in drug form)

More Breakthroughs:

• Custom Care Database
  
• Hair Preserver
  
• Personalized Tumor Vaccine
  

From Reader's Digest - October 2008

 

• Breast Cancer

• Quiz: Test Your Breast Cancer IQ
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• Breast Cancer Breakthrough: Hair Preserver
• Research from the Netherlands is helping breast cancer patients keep a cool head.
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• Breast Cancer Breakthrough: Personalized Tumor Vaccine
• Find out about the vaccine that's helping some breast cancer survivors stay in remission.
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• Breast Cancer Breakthrough: Custom Care
• All about the new way breast cancer patients can find tailored plans to help them beat disease.
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