Does Tea taking causes Cancer?

It seems that we cant take tea now, especially in Scotland, according to a report by BBC, >7 cups of tea a day causes >50% developing prostate cancer than "normal" tea drinkers.

This was the result of a study over 37 years involving 6000 volunteers aged between 21 & 75 ages. It is surprized all that they haven't chosen other drinks like coffee or alcohols but they chosen tea which was earlier mentioned that it was good for health.

See here...health by taking tea by WIKI

Even several cancer institutes like National Cancer Institute suggests it is good for health than coffee and how it prevents cancer...see here

So, what actually tea contains which were good or bad for health?

Take a look here...

Well there is Theanine and Caffeine, making up about 3% of its dry weight up to 90mg per cup, depending upon the tea. Theanine moves across the blood brain barrier (quite distant from the prostrate) and has a synergistic effect with caffeine, high doses even providing a neuroprotective effect. Caffeine is a stimulant and the author of the Wiki page suggests that it may even have moderately protective effect against certain cancers.

There are also things like Theobromine (or should it be teaobromine) and theophylline. So those compounds are  probably not the cause of this higher prostrate cancer risk.

Up to 30% of the dry weight of tea are the Catechins. These look like a possible candidates! Some present in green tea are shown below.

The above figures contain phenols, they may even have antioxidant properties, but may act as carcinogens as well.But their quantity were not that much high to doubt about them.(?)

The tea plant apparently has the capacity to absorb lots of the pollutants we pump out every day, e.g. fluoride and aluminum, the latter  can be present up to 30,000ppm by dry weight! Exactly what the form of the fluoride and aluminum is I don't know, presumably sodium fluoride, perhaps someone can enlighten me as to the aluminum source.

So everyone, what shall we drink now? How about red wine, with all that reservatrol it must be good for you perhaps the chances of developing cancers will be reduced. It's like everything we do (apart from working and paying tax), taken in moderation it is very enjoyable, but taken in excess, well I guess we have all suffered a hangover at some time.

Enjoy your tea breaks.