A new research has found that an ethanol-based gel can cure cancer with 100 percent certainty when injected directly into squamous cell tumors.
According to the researchers at Duke University, they have achieved a 100 percent cure rate for squamous cell carcinoma merely injecting an ethanol-based gel directly into the tumors.
Scientists have known the effects of ethanol on cancer for some time now, but some limitations have kept the medicine industry from using it as a basic treatment.
However, the work of these researchers has outwitted everyone else. The ethanol-based gel, developed by the university researchers is a form of cancer therapy. While the gel base is being used to treat some types of liver and thyroid cancers, it is still limited due to the damage it could cause to its nearby tissue.
This limits the gel's effectiveness on tumors surrounded by a fibrous capsule, which is capable of containing ethanol.
The researchers are also trying to overcome that limitation of the treatment by blending it with ethyl cellulose which can create a get to contain the solution within the tumor or injection site.
Ethanol is a kind of alcohol used in making cocktails. Which means it is also cheap enough to drastically change the dynamic of cancer treatment. According to some reports, this treatment costs up to a mere five dollars per session and has an almost a perfect success rate.
Cancer treatment is expensive around the globe, however, in developing and underdeveloped countries, it's entirely unavailable. In these areas, the advanced technology required to treat cancer is in very short supply.
In these conditions, this low cost and easily administered cancer treatment could have a significant impact on the healthcare in these countries.

Human urine is about 96 percent water and four percent waste products, but there are more than 3,000 compounds are found in the fluid. Army scientists are experimenting with producing hydrogen from urine. Credit: David McNally, ARL Public Affairs

Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory observed an unexpected result when combining urine with a newly engineered nano-powder based on aluminum. It instantly releases hydrogen from the urine at much higher rate than with ordinary water.
The research team announced earlier this summer that a nano-galvanic aluminum-based powder they were developing produced pure hydrogen when coming into contact with water. The researchers observed a similar reaction when adding their powder to any liquid containing water.
"What we do as Army scientists is develop materials and technology that will directly benefit the Soldier and enhance their capabilities," said Dr. Kristopher Darling, an ARL researcher. "We developed a new processing technique to synthesize a material, which spontaneously splits water into hydrogen."
Hydrogen, the most plentiful element in the universe, has the potential to power fuel cells and provide energy to future Soldiers.
Fuel cells generate electricity quietly, efficiently and without pollution. According to a Department of Energy's website, fuel cells are "more energy-efficient than combustion engines and the hydrogen used to power them can come from a variety of sources."
"We have calculated that one kilogram of aluminum powder can produce 220 kilowatts of energy in just three minutes," said Dr. Anit Giri, also an ARL researcher.
In space, astronauts recycle waste water and urine because drinking water is a precious commodity. For Soldiers in austere environments, there are many precious commodities. Power and energy is becoming increasingly important to run communications and electronics gear for away teams, which can't be resupplied.
Making use of urine as fuel source may result in tremendous benefits for Soldiers, officials said.
"When we demonstrated it with urine, we saw almost a factor of twofold increase in the reaction rates," Darling said. "We were very excited. As a group we have been pushing for the last few months on developing the efficiency and the reaction kinetics to try to get them faster."
The team is still investigating why urine causes a faster reaction, but it may have something to do with the electrolytes and the acidity of the liquid.

Army scientists and engineers found that a nano-galvanic aluminum-based powder they developed produces hydrogen when added to water or any liquid containing water. Credit: David McNally, ARL Public Affairs
"It's unique because the rate of the reaction is so efficient and extremely rapid from such a small volume of material," Darling said.
The team is working closely with other researchers at the laboratory, including the Sensors and Electron Devices Directorate, to discover how to harness the material as a potential energy source.
"It was a spontaneous finding," Darling said. "We weren't expecting to develop this material specifically for hydrogen production. It was a group effort. We came together as a team to understand the importance of the discovery. This has great potential for benefiting Soldiers."