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Green tea may not decrease the risk of developing breast cancer.

Women's Health Weekly

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2004 JUL 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review data of two large studies and find no association between drinking green tea and reduced risk of breast cancer.

According to a study from Japan, "In a pooled analysis of two prospective studies with 35,004 Japanese women, green tea intake was not associated with a lower risk of breast cancer (222 cases)."

The multivariate relative risk for women drinking greater than or equal to 5 cups compared with

Suzuki and colleagues published their study in the British Journal of Cancer (Green tea and the risk of breast cancer: pooled analysis of two prospective studies in Japan. Br J Cancer, 2004;90(7):1361-1363).

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