Green tea and gold offer new therapeutic hope for prostate cancer

combination of gold and green tea compounds may be potential treatment for prostate cancer, according to researchers from the University of Missouri.In a new mouse study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers found that a combination of a compound found in green tea leaves and radioactive gold nanoparticles were able to destroy the tumour cells.The tea compound,...

Surgery unneeded for most early-stage prostate cancer, study says

Most men with early-stage prostate cancer will live just as long by monitoring their cancers, says a landmark study that could change the medical approach to the widespread disease.rather than have them surgically removed, according to the results of a landmark clinical trial that could upend the medical approach to a disease that affects 1 in 6 men., should reassure patients who want to avoid distressing...