Green tea, gold therapy ‘can treat prostate cancer’

An unlikely therapy derived from green tea and gold can successfully treat prostate cancer, a study has shown.

Scientists in the US used a compound found in green tea to deliver tiny particles of radioactive gold dust to cancer sites.

The early research, conducted in mice, showed that the treatment shrank tumours by 80%. Further studies are now planned on dogs with prostate cancer before moving on to human trials.