Green tea - A cancer preventive agent: Facts and fiction;Krebsprävention durch grünen tee: Wirklichkeit und wunschdenken

Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 152, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 153-158

  Bertram, Barbara ^a,b   Bartsch, H ^a  

^a Deutschen Krebsforschungszentrums   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer prevention; EGCG; Epidemiology; Green tea; Mechanism of action; Tea polyphenols

Indexed keywords

EPIGALLOCATECHIN GALLATE; POLYPHENOL; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN P53; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANGIOGENESIS; CANCER; CANCER PREVENTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; REVIEW; TEA; TUMOR GROWTH;

ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS; CATECHIN; CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; TEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036092067     PISSN: 00435341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1563-258x.2002.01052.x     Document Type: Review

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