While the process ignores countless other peer-reviewed alternatives and even adds a radioactive quality to gold nanoparticles, it still manages to heavily outperform chemotherapy.

Hailing from the University of Missouri, researchers have developed the new method to target cancer using a special compound found in tea leaves matched with a unique blend of gold nanoparticles. When compared to current chemotherapy ‘treatments’ in which patients receive mega doses of chemicals in order to kill their cancer cells, the gold and tea method is a clear winner for a number of reasons. For starters, chemotherapy doesn’t just ‘kill’ cancer cells. In fact, it can kill you as well.

The very same chemicals intended to eradicate cancer cell spread throughout the rest of your body, damaging your organs and leading to a wide variety of other significant health complications. One such complication can be death.

The new gold and tea treatment, however, while still having serious flaws (verses treatment options without any radioactive components), actually is confined to attacking only the tumor — and with using a dosage that is thousands of times smaller than traditional chemotherapy.

Simply by using this gold and tea process instead of harsh chemotherapy — which actually oftentimes kills the patient more so than even the cancer itself, scientists state that tumor size was able to be reduced by around 70 to 80%.