However, the latest analysis looking at 54,000 women found no association between drinking green tea and breast cancer risk.
Dr Motoki Iwasaki, from the National Cancer Centre, Tokyo, worked with a team of researchers to carry out the study.
He said: ‘Results from human studies have been inconclusive. Our large-scale, population-based prospective cohort study is one of the first to include a wide range of tea intakes; women who drank green tea less than 1 cup per week to those who drank 10 or more cups per day.
‘It found no overall association between green tea intake and the risk of breast cancer”
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