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TIL there's a cancer treatment costing less than $5 USD; it injects ethanol (type of alcohol in beverages) into the tumor with cure rate on par with surgical removal. Duke University scientists boosted the cure rate by creating an ethyl cellulose-ethanol gel, curing 100% of cheek tumors in hamsters.

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