Can drinking tea prevent skin cancer?

Skin malignancies refer to malignant tumors that occur in the human skin and its appendages, including skin carcinoma in situ, squamous cell carcinoma, basal cell carcinoma, sweat gland carcinoma, eczematoid carcinoma, malignant lymphoma and malignant melanoma, among which basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma have the highest incidence. So can drinking tea prevent skin cancer? It is best to drink green tea that is dried immediately after harvesting, as this type of green tea retains more tea polyphenols and is more effective in preventing skin cancer.

The researchers let the mice that had been exposed to ultraviolet light drink green tea, or apply tea polyphenols to their skin, and they could avoid the redness, blistering and cell differentiation common in early skin cancer, which shows that green tea can effectively prevent mice from getting skin cancer. The researchers said that the trend of drinking green tea is particularly popular in Asia, where cases of skin diseases have always been much less than in the West, which shows that the anti-skin cancer effect of green tea has the same effect on humans.
Tea polyphenols extracted from tea leaves have many anti-radiation effects. Tea polyphenols can directly remove free radicals produced by radiation, reduce organ damage, and improve the body's immunity. It can also protect the body's hematopoietic function, thereby achieving a good anti-radiation effect. In addition to significantly increasing white blood cells, tumor patients who take tea polyphenol preparations after irradiation can generally improve their quality of life, increase appetite, improve sleep and defecation, and facilitate tumor treatment. It is also a rare protector for "screen tribes" who are exposed to radiation for a long time, nuclear industry workers, radiologists, pilots, etc. Therefore, tea is also known as the "drink of the atomic age."