green tea and Reduced Cancer Risk

• Green Tea and Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG) for Cancer Prevention: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

  • 2025-01
  • Meta-Analysis
  • The American journal of Chinese medicine 53(06)
  • • Yang Zhang
    • Qiong Xu
    • Jiepin Hu
    • Feng Zhang
    • Youjie Yu
    • Longying Ma

  • PubMed: 40832777
  • DOI: 10.1142/s0192415x2550065x

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Cancer Risk

  • High evidence

  green tea (relative risk [RR]: 0.91, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.86-0.96) ... could reduce the risk of cancer to a certain extent compared to controls.

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  High doses and long-term consumption