Green tea blocks benefits of cancer drug
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 - 17:14
in Health & Medicine
Contrary to popular assumptions about the health benefits of green tea, researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have found that the widely used supplement renders a cancer drug used to treat multiple myeloma and mantle cell lymphoma completely ineffective in treating cancer. read more
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