Tea & Cancer

[Matheous-2]

Anyone pick up on the link made last week(?) about a cancer scare with prostrate being specified as 50% increased chance for tea drinkers?

[boxtops]

It's not proven, matheous, and they say it could be another factor, i.e. coincidental http://news.sky.com/s...increases-cancer-risk

[FredPuli43]

Never mind. Wait for the Daily Mail to give its judgment. By past record, the Daily Mail will soon have story that drinking tea stops prostate cancer ! (To be followed later by one that it causes it and then..)

Seriously, tea drinking is very common, and prostate cancer comparatively uncommon.It would be difficult to construct a study which would exclude other possibilities or show that tea was a definite cause.

[sophie_1003]

Plus; it's more than seven cups a day; that's a lot of tea!

[sunny-dave]

Quite so Fred - on that same basis it is well proven that breathing causes cancer, farting causes premature baldness and (according to a female research team) being male is 100% likely to make you an idiot ...

[pips1]

I never give up anything that I like, when I die I die.

[DaisyNonna]

Completely disillusioned by claims of what is dangerous to eat or drink. At this rate there is nothing left. Enquiring at the surgery the practice nurse snapped "Just follow the government's guide lines."
Asking to be referred to a dietician received the answer "No, we don't do that."
A new scare comes up every week, eat or drink this and you may develop.... but it will protect you from .....

[sandyRoe]

Is it still: Green tea good, ordinary tea bad?

[DaisyNonna]

Hate the taste of tea. Luckily female.

[naomi24]

Perhaps we should stop doing everything - but we'll still die of something.

[rojash]

It's impossible to drink tea if you are prostrate.

[Matheous-2]

rojash - Sorry about the 'auto correct' -I never noticed the word should of course read ' prostate '.....Maybe it would be possible to drink tea with a straw in the prostrate position??.....

[excelsior-1]

prostate cancer is hereditary.
my grandfather died of it - and my father died of it.
i have regular blood checks to ensure the early detection and treatment of it.

i do drink a lot of tea - but i believe there is no connection

[headwreck]

When I was being treated for cancer, there was a scare that Cornflakes give you cancer, we were still given them and told to ignore if we like and tea also came into the mix, nothing was proven and we got all our cups of tea all day, the oncologist told me, students in universities and colleges come up with these scare tactics once in a while and just ignore..and I do :)

[fbg40]

As a Prostate cancer sufferer (diagnosed in July 2010-surgery in 2010 and radiotherapy in 2011), the only connection as far as I am concerned is that tea (and coffee and alcohol) are bladder irritants.I switched to decaffeinated tea (can't stand decaf coffee so only 1 cup per day now) and it has made a great difference.
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