| ScienceNetwork WA |
| Wednesday, 12 December 2012 |
The benefits of tea drinking have been shown again in a study that has found the risk of ovarian cancer is reduced in tea drinkers.
Curtin University PhD student Dada Su conducted a hospital based case control study in Guangzhou, China with 1,000 participants—500 patients with histologically confirmed epithelial carcinoma of the ovary and 500 unaffected women as controls—who completed a questionnaire about their tea consumption history.
The results display control subjects reporting higher tea consumption levels and prevalence (78.8 per cent) than the ovarian cancer patients (51.4 per cent), indicating that regular tea consumption is associated with a reduced risk of ovarian cancer (in the southern Chinese women surveyed).
Those involved in the study were found to drink a mixture of green, black and oolong tea.
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20121112-23908.html
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