Scientific Correspondence
Nature 389, 134-135 (11 September 1997) | doi:10.1038/38154
Inhibition of carcinogenesis by tea
Chung S. Yang1
In the recent Scientific Correspondence1 by J. Jankun et al., entitled "Why drinking tea could prevent cancer", I was surprised to find that a review article by myself and Z.-Y. Wang about the effects of green and black tea on cancer2 had been misquoted. In addition, I find the hypothesis in this report as to why drinking tea could prevent cancer misleading, and believe that the data were erroneously interpreted with regard to the mechanisms of cancer inhibition by tea. I would like to clarify four points.
- Laboratory for Cancer Research, Department of Chemical Biology, College of Pharmacy, Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08855-0789, USA