Eating Brussels sprouts and drinking green tea could make aggressive breast cancers treatable by ‘turning off’ tumor genes, a study has found

Eating sprouts and drinking green tea could make aggressive breast cancers treatable, new research suggests.

Compounds in cruciferous vegetables, such as sprouts, and the traditional herbal drink ‘turn off’ genes for ER-negative forms of the disease, which is notoriously unresponsive to therapy, a study found.

Study author Professor Trygve Tollefsbol from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said: ‘Your mother always told you to eat your vegetables, and science now tells us she was right.

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