Grant to Study Effects of Green Tea Drug On Prostate Cancer, Awarded to Moffitt Cancer Center
July 11, 2007 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) awarded a $3.6 million grant over five years to a team of physicians and scientists – led by Nagi Kumar, Ph.D., director of Nutrition Research at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute and associate professor in the College of Medicine at the University of South Florida – to study the effects of Polyphenon E in preventing the progression of early signs of prostate cancer.
Polyphenon E is the drug developed from green tea which has proved to be safe and effective in preventing progression of prostate cancer in men who were diagnosed with High-grade …read more




