Green tea extract can cure childhood cancers

Sydney, August 09 – A green-tea extract could help destroy deadly childhood cancers that are resistant to traditional chemotherapy, a new study has found.

 

Cancer researcher Orazio Vittorio said that a modified antioxidant called catechin can kill 50 per cent of the cells from neuroblastoma cancers within three days in laboratory studies.

 

Dr Vittorio, from the Children`s Cancer Institute Australia and the Lowy cancer research centre at UNSW has said that Neuroblastoma is the most common cancer to strike infants, and has the lowest survival rate of all childhood cancers.

 

Catechin, extracted from green tea, is thought to be a promising cancer treatment, but its instability when it enters the body limits its effectiveness.

 

Source: ANI