Component In Green Tea May Help Kill Leukemia Cells
Mayo Clinic researchers using laboratory cell cultures have found that a component in green tea called epigallocatechin-3 (EGCG) helps destroy leukemia cells by interrupting the communication signals needed for them to survive. The specific cells studied were from patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL); the type most often diagnosed in patients in the mid-to-late sixties. There is currently no cure for CLL, though chemotherapy is given in extreme cases. Mayo Clinic scientist Dr. Neil E. Kay stated that one of the purposes of the study was to look for therapeutic agents that are nontoxic to the patient but kill the cancer cells.
Additional research in this area would help to support the findings of the study. Source: Blood, Volume 104, pps. 788-94. Read More.
Mayo Clinic researchers using laboratory cell cultures have found that a component in green tea called epigallocatechin-3 (EGCG) helps destroy leukemia cells by interrupting the communication signals needed for them to survive. The specific cells studied were from patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL); the type most often diagnosed in patients in the mid-to-late sixties. There is currently no cure for CLL, though chemotherapy is given in extreme cases. Mayo Clinic scientist Dr. Neil E. Kay stated that one of the purposes of the study was to look for therapeutic agents that are nontoxic to the patient but kill the cancer cells.
Additional research in this area would help to support the findings of the study. Source: Blood, Volume 104, pps. 788-94. Read More.