How green tea rids you of oral cancer

GREEN TEA consists of an ingredi ent, which may help kill oral canAcer cells, without touching the healthy cells, says a new research.

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Associate professor Joshua Lambert at Penn State said that earlier studies had shown that epigallocate chin-3-gallateEGCG-a compound found in green tea, killed oral cancer cells without harming nor mal cells, but researchers did not understand the reasons for its ability to target the cancer cells.

The current study shows that EGCG may trigger a process in the mitochondria that leads to cell death.

The researchers studied normal human oral cells side-by-side with human oral cancer cells to determine how EGCG was affecting cancer cells differently than normal cells.