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# Green tea fights cancer - review study
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/green_tea_fights_cancer_0514120548/
- Published: 2012-05-14T18:43:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:50:49.000Z
- Description: A review in Molecular Nutrition and Food Research reports that four case-control studies combine to show an inverse link between green tea intake and ovarian cancer risk, and that green tea catechin ointment may help premalignant cervical lesions and genital warts.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Food, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

By Maria Cendejas

A recent review published in the journal Molecular Nutrition and Food Research says that green tea also known as camellia sinensis naturally contains a variety of antiviral and anti-cancer compounds with many proven health benefits. The review explains that consuming green tea can help prevent against ovarian, endometrial, cervical, and various other forms of gynecologic cancers, according to Natural News.

Green tea is gaining worldwide attention for its myriad of catechins, flavonoids, polyphenols, and other nutritive compounds that each possess their own unique healing capabilities. Green tea polyphenols has proven chemo-protective properties, while green tea catechins has proven antiviral and immuno-modulating properties. These compounds synergistically strengthen the body and protect it against the development and spread of malignant cancer cells.

The study says, "During the past three decades, at least 17 epidemiologic studies have evaluated tea and ovarian cancer risk; however, only four case-control studies (one in Australia, two in the United States, and one in China) have published results specifically for green tea intake and ovarian cancer risk. The combined odds ratios from those four studies show a significant inverse association between green tea intake and risk for ovarian cancer."

Besides protecting against ovarian cancer, it also may prevent against the human papillomavirus which some say is linked to the development of cervical and other invasive genital cancers. Although evidence from published studies is not definite, it appears that green tea catechin ointment may provide positive benefits in treating premalignant cervical lesions and external genital warts.

Gynecologic cancers aren’t the only types of cancer that respond to green tea. Green tea compounds inhibit the formation of all cancer-causing compounds, and also help force them from the body. The American Cancer Society now admits, albeit in a round-about way, that green tea helps protect against cancer by blocking new cancer-feeding blood vessels from forming in the body.

In their book The Encyclopedia of Healing Foods, Michael Murray, N.D., and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D., write," Gastrointestinal tract, including cancers of the stomach, small intestine, pancreas, and colon; lung cancer, estrogen-related cancers, including most breast cancers; and prostate cancer."

When drinking or eating green tea products, be sure to consume only the organic varieties, as conventional varieties can contain high levels of pesticide residues, like fluoride.