Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 74-81 , January 2010

Is Green Tea Drinking Associated With a Later Onset of Breast Cancer?

  • Qi Dai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Dr. Qi Dai, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Institute for Medicine & Public Health, Sixth Floor, Suite 600, 2525 West End Ave., Nashville, TN 37203-1738. Tel: (615) 936-0707; fax: 615-936-8291.
    • ,
  • Xiao-Ou Shu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
    • ,
  • Honglan Li

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai 200032, People's Republic of China
    • ,
  • Gong Yang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
    • ,
  • Martha J. Shrubsole

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
    • ,
  • Hui Cai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
    • ,
  • Butian Ji

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
    • ,
  • Wanqing Wen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN
    • ,
  • Adrian Franke

      Affiliations

    • Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, Honolulu
    • ,
  • Yu-Tang Gao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Epidemiology, Shanghai Cancer Institute, Shanghai 200032, People's Republic of China
    • ,
  • Wei Zheng

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt School of Medicine, Nashville, TN

Received 30 April 2009 ,Accepted 9 September 2009.

References 

  1. Gao YT, McLaughlin JK, Blot WJ, Ji BT, Dai Q, Fraumeni JF. Reduced risk of esophageal cancer associated with green tea consumption. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1994;86:855–858
  2. Ji BT, Chow WH, Hsing AW, McLaughlin JK, Dai Q, Gao YT, et al. Green tea consumption and the risk of pancreatic and colorectal cancers. Int J Cancer. 1997;70:255–258
  3. Sun CL, Yuan JM, Lee MJ, Yang CS, Gao YT, Ross RK, et al. Urinary tea polyphenols in relation to gastric and esophageal cancers: a prospective study of men in Shanghai, China. Carcinogenesis. 2002;23:1497–1503
  4. Sun CL, Yuan JM, Koh WP, Yu MC. Green tea, black tea and colorectal cancer risk: a meta-analysis of epidemiologic studies. Carcinogenesis. 2006;27:1301–1309
  5. Yuan JM, Gao YT, Yang CS, Yu MC. Urinary biomarkers of tea polyphenols and risk of colorectal cancer in the Shanghai Cohort Study. Int J Cancer. 2007;120:1344–1350
  6. Ju J, Lu G, Lambert JD, Yang CS. Inhibition of carcinogenesis by tea constituents. Semin Cancer Biol. 2007;17:395–402
  7. Zhu M, Chen Y, Li RC. Oral absorption and bioavailability of tea catechins. Planta Med. 2000;66:444–447
  8. Key TJ, Pike MC. The role of oestrogens and progestagens in the epidemiology and prevention of breast cancer. Eur J Cancer Clin Oncol. 1988;24:29–43
  9. Henderson BE, Pike MC, Bernstein L, Whelen SL. Breast cancer. In:  Schottenfeld D,  Parkin DM editor. Cancer epidemiology and prevention. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press; 1996;p. 1022–1039
  10. Bernstein L, Ross RK. Endogenous hormones and breast cancer risk. Epidemiol Rev. 1993;15:48–65
  11. Thomas HV, Reeves GK, Key TJ. Endogenous estrogen and postmenopausal breast cancer: a quantitative review. Cancer Causes Control. 1997;8:922–928
  12. Dorgan JF, Longcope C, Stephenson HE, Falk RT, Miller R, Franz C, et al. Serum sex hormone levels are related to breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women. Environ Health Perspect. 1997;105(Suppl. 3):583–585
  13. Hankinson SE, Willett WC, Manson JE, Colditz GA, Hunter DJ, Spiegelman D, et al. Plasma sex steroid hormone levels and risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. J Natl Cancer Inst. 1998;90:1292–1299
  14. Tamimi RM, Byrne C, Colditz GA, Hankinson SE. Endogenous hormone levels, mammographic density, and subsequent risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2007;99:1178–1187
  15. Tworoger SS, Missmer SA, Barbieri RL, Willett WC, Colditz GA, Hankinson SE. Plasma sex hormone concentrations and subsequent risk of breast cancer among women using postmenopausal hormones. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2005;97:595–602
  16. Eliassen AH, Missmer SA, Tworoger SS, Spiegelman D, Barbieri RL, Dowsett M, et al. Endogenous steroid hormone concentrations and risk of breast cancer among premenopausal women. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2006;98:1406–1415
  17. Kapiszewska M, Miskiewicz M, Ellison PT, Thune I, Jasienska G. High tea consumption diminishes salivary 17beta-estradiol concentration in Polish women. Br J Nutr. 2006;95:989–995
  18. Nagata C, Kabuto M, Shimizu H. Association of coffee, green tea, and caffeine intakes with serum concentrations of estradiol and sex hormone-binding globulin in premenopausal Japanese women. Nutr Cancer. 1998;30:21–24
  19. Wu AH, Yu MC. Tea, hormone-related cancers and endogenous hormone levels. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2006;50:160–169
  20. Wu AH, Arakawa K, Stanczyk FZ, Van Den BD, Koh WP, Yu MC. Tea and circulating estrogen levels in postmenopausal Chinese women in Singapore. Carcinogenesis. 2005;26:976–980
  21. Satoh K, Sakamoto Y, Ogata A, Nagai F, Mikuriya H, Numazawa M, et al. Inhibition of aromatase activity by green tea extract catechins and their endocrinological effects of oral administration in rats. Food Chem Toxicol. 2002;40:925–933
  22. Sun CL, Yuan JM, Koh WP, Yu MC. Green tea, black tea and breast cancer risk: a meta-analysis of epidemiological studies. Carcinogenesis. 2006;27:1310–1315
  23. Seely D, Mills EJ, Wu P, Verma S, Guyatt GH. The effects of green tea consumption on incidence of breast cancer and recurrence of breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Integr Cancer Ther. 2005;4:144–155
  24. Shrubsole MJ, Lu W, Chen Z, Shu XO, Zheng Y, Dai Q, et al. Drinking green tea modestly reduces breast cancer risk. J Nutr. 2009;139:310–316
  25. Tao MH, Liu D, Gao L, Jin F. [Association between green tea drinking and breast cancer risk.]. Tumor. 2002;22(3):11–15Chinese
  26. Hunter DJ, Manson JE, Stampfer MJ. A prospective study of caffeine, coffee, tea, and breast cancer. Am J Epidemiol. 1992;136:1000–1001
  27. Ganmaa D, Willett WC, Li TY, Feskanich D, van Dam RM, Lopez-Garcia E, et al. Coffee, tea, caffeine and risk of breast cancer: a 22-year follow-up. Int J Cancer. 2008;122:2071–2076
  28. Zheng W, Chow WH, Yang G, Jin F, Rothman N, Blair A, et al. The Shanghai Women's Health Study: rationale, study design, and baseline characteristics. Am J Epidemiol. 2005;162:1123–1131
  29. Maskarinec G, Watts K, Kagihara J, Hebshi SM, Franke AA. Urinary isoflavonoid excretion is similar after consuming soya milk and miso soup in Japanese-American women. Br J Nutr. 2008;100:424–429
  30. Li C, Lee MJ, Sheng S, Meng X, Prabhu S, Winnik B, et al. Structural identification of two metabolites of catechins and their kinetics in human urine and blood after tea ingestion. Chem Res Toxicol. 2000;13:177–184
  31. Franke AA, Custer LJ, Wilkens LR, Le Marchand LL, Nomura AM, Goodman MT, et al. Liquid chromatographic-photodiode array mass spectrometric analysis of dietary phytoestrogens from human urine and blood. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2002 Sep 25;777(1-2):45–59
  32. Blair RM, Appt SE, Franke AA, Clarkson TB. Treatment with antibiotics reduces plasma equol concentration in cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fascicularis). J Nutr. 2003;133:2262–2267
  33. Maskarinec G, Hebshi S, Custer L, Franke AA. The relation of soy intake and isoflavone levels in nipple aspirate fluid. Eur J Cancer Prev. 2008;17:67–70
  34. Shu XO, Yang G, Jin F, Liu D, Kushi L, Wen W, et al. Validity and reproducibility of the food frequency questionnaire used in the Shanghai Women's Health Study. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2003;58:17–23
  35. Hosmer DW, Lemeshow S. Applied survival analysis. Regression modeling of time to even data. New York: Wiley; 1999;
  36. Korn EL, Graubard BI, Midthune D. Time-to-event analysis of longitudinal follow-up of a survey: choice of the time-scale. Am J Epidemiol. 1997;145:72–80
  37. Wu AH, Yu MC, Tseng CC, Hankin J, Pike MC. Green tea and risk of breast cancer in Asian Americans. Int J Cancer. 2003;106:574–579
  38. Zhang M, Holman CD, Huang JP, Xie X. Green tea and the prevention of breast cancer: a case-control study in Southeast China. Carcinogenesis. 2007;28:1074–1078
  39. Key TJ, Sharp GB, Appleby PN, Beral V, Goodman MT, Soda M, et al. Soya foods and breast cancer risk: a prospective study in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Br J Cancer. 1999;81:1248–1256
  40. Suzuki Y, Tsubono Y, Nakaya N, Suzuki Y, Koizumi Y, Tsuji I. Green tea and the risk of breast cancer: pooled analysis of two prospective studies in Japan. Br J Cancer. 2004;90:1361–1363
  41. Inoue M, Robien K, Wang R. Van Den Berg DJ, Koh WP, Yu MC. Green tea intake, MTHFR/TYMS genotype and breast cancer risk: the Singapore Chinese Health Study. Carcinogenesis. 2008;29:1967–1972
  42. Nakachi K, Suemasu K, Suga K, Takeo T, Imai K, Higashi Y. Influence of drinking green tea on breast cancer malignancy among Japanese patients. Jpn J Cancer Res. 1998;89:254–261
  43. Inoue M, Tajima K, Mizutani M, Iwata H, Iwase T, Miura S, et al. Regular consumption of green tea and the risk of breast cancer recurrence: follow-up study from the Hospital-based Epidemiologic Research Program at Aichi Cancer Center (HERPACC). Japan. Cancer Lett. 2001;167:175–182

PII: S1047-2797(09)00317-2

doi: 10.1016/j.annepidem.2009.09.005

Annals of Epidemiology
Volume 20, Issue 1 , Pages 74-81 , January 2010

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution