Ethanol Treatment for Tumors Experiment
Description
Experiment where 3 different treatments of ethanol were tested on the treatment of oral cancer tumors in hamsters.
Usage
ethanol
Format
A data frame with 24 observations, each representing one hamster, on the following 2 variables.
- treatment
Treatment the hamster received.
- regress
a factor with levels
noyes
Details
The ethyl_cellulose and pure_ethanol treatments consisted of
about a quarter of the volume of the tumors, while the
pure_ethanol_16x treatment was 16x that, so about 4 times the size of
the tumors.
Source
Morhard R, et al. 2017. Development of enhanced ethanol ablation as an alternative to surgery in treatment of superficial solid tumors. Scientific Reports 7:8750.