Release date: 2017-09-13
New research has shown that when ethanol-based gels are injected directly into squamous cell tumors, ethanol gels can achieve a 100% cure rate for tumors. This low-cost, easy-to-treat cancer treatment can significantly improve the effectiveness and survival of cancer treatment in developing countries.
Researchers at Duke University achieved a 100% cure for squamous cell carcinoma in a hamster model by injecting an ethanol-based gel directly into the tumor. His research is published in the natural sciences, which is inspired by low-cost ethanol ablation and improves the treatment of various tumors.
Ethanol can kill some types of tumors when injected because it destroys proteins and kills dead cells in a process called ethanol ablation. Ethanol ablation has been used to treat a variety of liver cancers, with a cost of less than $5 per treatment, with a success rate similar to surgery. This is really a cheap and practical treatment.
However, ethanol ablation as a therapeutic technique is limited. Researchers have attempted to improve this technique by mixing ethanol with ethylcellulose to produce a solution that is converted to a gel within the tumor, held near the injection site.
The team tested gels on hamster models: especially hamsters with oral squamous cell carcinoma. For hamster tumors injected with pure ethanol, the experimental hamsters received a new ethanol gel. Seven days later, 6 of the 7 tumors completely resolved, and the hamsters received ethanol gel. By the eighth day, all seven tumors had disappeared and the cure rate was 100%.
Cancer treatment is expensive everywhere, but in developing countries it is often impossible to achieve. Cutting-edge technology is in short supply in developing regions, and even health care professionals and electricity may not be available. This is why the cure rate and survival rate of cancer patients in developing countries are very low.
Most new cancer treatment research focuses on very expensive technologies, some of which may not even be economically viable in the United States and elsewhere. These new methods almost universally require complex medical facilities for treatment. Therefore, simple, low-cost, non-surgical cancer treatments demonstrated in natural research are highly desirable in developing regions.
The small sample size and animal model used in this study meant that more work was needed before the study went beyond the proof of concept phase. Even so, the results are very promising. The team believes that a single injection of ethanol gel can cure certain types of tumors and may be able to treat certain cervical precancerous lesions and breast cancer. Perhaps most profoundly, any advancement in this research will benefit patients around the world.
Source: Wanbang Xingjian International Medical Information (Micro Signal MedTrip-US)
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