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Title: Green tea extract may slow leukaemia, researchers have suggested
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URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/h ... esearchers-have-suggested.html
Published: Jun 5, 2010
Author: By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
Post Date: 2010-06-05 16:08:36 by gengis gandhi
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Green tea extract may slow leukaemia, researchers have suggested An extract taken from green tea reduces cancer cells in the blood of patients with a form of leukaemia and may slow progression of the disease, a conference will hear. By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor Published: 8:15AM BST 05 Jun 2010 Green tea leaves Photo: ALAMY Researchers at the prestigious Mayo Clinic in America have found that patients in the early stages of the most common form of leukaemia may respond well to taken supplements of a green tea extract. The chemical, epigallocatechin galeate (EGCG), was found more than two thirds of 42 patients in the trial showed a significant reduction in the number of leukaemia cells in their blood or other signs the cancer was not spreading. Related Articles Henna tattoo cancer link Leukaemia vaccine breakthrough Survivors of childhood cancer at 'greater risk' of heart problems Leukaemia breakthrough as Irish researchers find drug with fewer side effects Green tea 'helps with eye disease' Chemical found in green tea 'could help to treat leukaemia' The findings, to be presented Monday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Dr Tait Shanafelt, hematologist and lead author of the study, said: "Although only a comparative phase III trial can determine whether EGCG can delay progression of CLL, the benefits we have seen in most CLL patients who use the chemical suggest that it has modest clinical activity and may be useful for stabilising this form of leukaemia, potentially slowing it down." All of the patients were at the early stages of the disease and were not showing symptoms so they would not be receiving treatment for their cancer, the researchers said. CLL often develops slowly with periods of remission when patients can simply be observed without treatment. There are around 7,400 people diagnosed with leukaemia in Britain a year and in around one third of cases it is a CLL.
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#1. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
Wondering the amount of EGCG the people were given? The extract that I use delivers 400mg in a two pill dosing.
dunno. you could do a google scholar search or maybe they have it over at www.lef.org in their research section.
__________________________________ Then we shall have to give ALL green tea a 'patent' or such and only allow CODEX/Big Pharma to regulate and make it available.../s
these assholes are having everything they touch turn to crap. they can't even put together the EU. expect more of the same at increasing rate
__________________________________ At this point you couldn't trade Mexi-yam seeds for all the tea in China.
A functioning police state needs no police. - William S Burroughs
#2. To: Lod (#1)
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#3. To: gengis gandhi (#0)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
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#5. To: gengis gandhi (#4)
these assholes are having everything they touch turn to crap.
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