Is it true that green tea ’slows prostate cancer’?

A spate of articles have been published recently concerning the effects of Green Tea on prostate cancer. The following discussion of the science, as well as the media response, is taken from my blog at Blue-Genes.net – please subscribe there, as I’m not sure whether I will continue to copy my posts here. N.B. the press release is also featured on Scienceblog here

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