Green tea and prostate cancer

[Alex]

The incidence rate of prostate cancer per 100,000 in the U.S. is 104, whereas in China it is 1.7! To investigate whether green tea may be one of the factors protecting Chinese men from this cancer, investigators explored whether use of green tea was different in men who developed prostate cancer compared with those who did not. In men who drank more than 3 cups of green tea per day, the odds of developing prostate cancer was 0.27 (over a 70% reduction). In men who had ingested green tea for at least 40 years the odds were reduced by over 90%. Other favorable factors in Chinese men could be lack of obesity and lower intake of saturated fat. Green tea appears to be the best way for a man to limit his risk of this cancer, and of the impotence that may follow treatment.

[stephenmorphey]

Hello,
Green tea is an anti oxidant. Western medicine can only treat cancer with chemo, radiation, or surgery. None of these are enough. You need to get every book you can find on alternative treatments for prostate cancer. Mike Milken has written one of the best guidlines on a dietary approach to treating this cancer by diet. Prostate and breast cancer are hormone driven and both respond to nutritional approaches for many people.
The prime elements are no dairy, no red meat, no refined sugars, increased anitoxidants, exercise, and SOY as your source of protein. It is important to buy as much organic foods as you can too.
People laugh at a nutritional approach, however I have prostate cancer and am surviving quite well. I endured 6 months of chemo and the product I received was derived from the bark of a tree!!!!!!
If you speak with chemists they have a very good understanding how the food products you eat impact your body on a cellular level.
Physicians are not able to endorse nutritional approaches as it goes against their hippocratic oath.
Hope this helps

[Alex]

It is absolutely true that a lot of very good medicines are derived from nature- aspirin and digitalis are good examples and as our site visitor said, at least one very effective cancer treatment comes from tree bark. Unfortunately many physicians do have a bias away from natural and dietary treatments and towards medications, in part because it is difficult to get funding to do studies to prove the effectiveness of inexpensive natural treatments. The most important thing for patients is to not decline proven treatments in favor of unproven remedies. As a pilot who volunteers his time to fly patients for treatment I have seen more than a few that are going for treatments that have not been established as effective (or even completely discredited) and some of those patients may be delaying or deciding against therapy that may be their last hope.