Searching for Evidence on Green Tea and Cancer

This assignment, likely from a health science course (HLTH301), focuses on researching the effects of green tea consumption on cancer risk. Students utilize databases like CINAHL and MEDLINE to find relevant articles and analyze their findings. The assignment culminates in a conclusion comparing the effectiveness of both databases for this type of research.

HLSC122 Assessment 2 – Searching for
evidence scenarios

Table of Contents
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CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4
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PARAGRAPH 1
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Key words/search terms/phrases Alternative words (OR)
P Young Women Adolescent
I Green tea Camellia Sinensis
C Black Tea Orange pekoe
O Preventing Avoidance, Blockage, Stoppage
cancer Carcinoma
PARAGRAPH 2
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Medline is a database that offers a full list of thousand of journals index in the database.
It uses medical subjects and provides clinicians, researchers, scientists and other scholarly
articles that user can access to choose the best biomedical research. It provides biomedical
information comprising nursing, medicine, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, dentistry and other
areas of health care.
Cinhal is another powerful nursing research tool that uses medical subject headings and
facilitates users to retrieve essential information through accessing wide range of journals. It
covers wide range of literature available with subject to health science, biomedicine, consumer
health, allied health discipline, evidence consumer health and others. It is one of the best tools
for the healthcare students, nurses and health professional who want to access detailed health
care information around the globe.
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Medline is the best database considered for the structured research to determine that
whether young women excessive intake of green tea in comparison to black tea prevents the risk
of cancer disease through accessing number of scholarly articles extract information with respect
to biomedical research conducted earlier in the field of chosen area. It only provides journal
articles on biomedical researches.
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Cinhal is also founded as an effective database because it provides detailed literature on
nursing & allied healthcare discipline. It gives us full list on the medicinal research that helps to
determine the medical benefits associated with high intake of green tea & its & its constituents
epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) to examine that whether it helps to reduce the possibility of
cancer or not. It provides articles, books, dissertation, conference papers on nursing, paramedical
science, behavioural science, health administration and others. Moreover, both published and
non-published scholarly publications are provided on the chosen database.
PARAGRAPH 3
Action Search
Mode
Results Limiters/Expanders
S1: CINAHL 576 Green Tea OR Cancer
S2: CINAHL 453 Camellia Sinensis AND Carcinoma
S3: CINAHL 212 Green Tea AND Cancer
S4 CINAHL 104 Green Tea AND cancer relate*
S5: CINAHL 57 Preventing cancer through Green tea
S6: CINAHL 10 Impact of Green tea/black tea on Cancer
The search conducted was highly effective in accordance with the PICO. At the initial
stage of search that was made, there are about 1043 results identified. There are certain symbols
and search terms that were changed and then it helped in selecting some relevant journals. When
effective key terms like impact and other word from greed tea was used, then more of scientific
approach was identified. In accordance with the given topic, impact of green and black tea on
cancer. From the findings, green tea is considered to be more effective than other tea like black.
Further, it also enables to reduce the rate of cancer. From all the articles that are considered
shows that the rate of effectiveness is high for green tea. The side effects that individuals face
due to cancer get reduced with the help of green tea.
Lecumberri, E., Dupertuis, Y.M., Miralbell, R. and Pichard, C., 2013. Green tea polyphenol
epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) as adjuvant in cancer therapy. Clinical
Nutrition. 32(6). pp.894-903.
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Iwasaki, M. and et.al., 2014. Green tea consumption and breast cancer risk in Japanese women: a
case-control study. Nutrition and cancer. 66(1). pp.57-67.
The above given journal are highly close for the type of research for which the search
was conducted. These journals cover all the aspects of the key search and to know the impact of
green tea on cancer.
CONCLUSION
In the research, it is founded that both Cinhal & Medline are the two important database
that provides full literature details and provides research evidences, still, Cinhal covers wider
area nursing, paramedical science, behavioural science, health administration and others while
Medline offers only biomedical research published articles.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Iwasaki, M. and et.al., 2014. Green tea consumption and breast cancer risk in Japanese women: a
case-control study. Nutrition and cancer. 66(1). pp.57-67.
Lecumberri, E., Dupertuis, Y.M., Miralbell, R. and Pichard, C., 2013. Green tea polyphenol
epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) as adjuvant in cancer therapy. Clinical
Nutrition. 32(6). pp.894-903.
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