Rather ironic that a liver cancer - often cause by alcohol abuse - might be reined in by heavy doses of (well contained) alcohol.

@MartinV: sort of like homeopathy in reverse. ;-) <p> I'm a little worried about the potential for unauthorized self-medication this treatment offers. Desperate cancer sufferers might try to self-inject. Not to mention various quacks. Ethanol is just about the most easily available chemical there is.

I don't believe excessive alcohol consumption has ever been the cause of liver cancer. Of Cirrhosis yes.

Ethanol is nothing but ordinary ethyl alcohol -- the spirit of spirits, the liquid that makes one as drunk as a lord and do funny things. But then (to paraphrase the Bard) a rose by any other name would have just as many thorns ...

Imagine of we put half of the effort and money being wasted on global warming into finding a cure for cancer. There would be a simple and effective cure for cancer by now. Shame on Al Gore and his brainwashed followers.

Considering the nasty side effects of mainstream cancer treatment, this seems like a winner for different kinds of cancers.

Potentially revolutionary discovery of a general cancer therapy with ethanol- ethyl cellulose gel (possibly not optimal since this gel may not metabolize) for localized carcinomas, especially when well encapsulated like prostate or even breast cancer masses. Also useful may be combination therapies with established aggressive anti tumor agents. May obviate therapies with flawed and overpriced therapies with short lived biopharma antibodies.

A very in encouraging development in the cancer fight. The only phrases that always trouble me are when they say things like, these are only early results or, a lot more tests are needed. Even when using drugs or compounds already approved. Then months turn into years and we never hear about it again. And that's why a lot of folks don't trust big farma. And this certainly looks to be a distruptuve tech that those who stand to lose money would like to control. Forgive us turning a potential possivitve into politics.

Sounds nice & simple & SHOULD then be inexpensive - EXCEPT THAT I will wait to see what the Big Pharma corporations do to this - they will try to kill anything that smacks of cheap & easy ! I do not trust the Medical World as long as they let the drug companies train them & teach them what to use - they are captive & the whole thing needs to be thoroughly dismantled & some encouragement given to those seriously trying to do the right thing as it seems these researchers are trying to do !

This method can also be safely used by detaching a body part(eg- a part of liver or Breast tissues) curing it with this method and re-attaching if back to patient..