INJECTING CANCER PATIENTS WITH ALCOHOL CAN KILL THEIR TUMOURS SAY JAPANESE SCIENTISTS
October 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIE
ENJOYING one unit of alcohol each day is generally considered healthy by most health practitioners in helping keep cholesterol levels down, but now researchers have found that injecting alcohol directly through the skin may also help combat cancer.
Japanese scientists claim that percutaneous ethanol injections (PEI) - that is injecting alcohol directly through the skin - helps manage bone metastasis in thyroid cancer patients.
The research presented at an Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, in Washington DC, showed that tumours ...
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