# OnCo record ethanol-lock-therapy (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
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<https://onco.cc/technologies/ethanol-lock-therapy/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "ethanol-lock-therapy" ;
  schema:name "Ethanol lock therapy for central venous catheters"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "Ethanol lock"@en, "ELT"@en, "70% ethanol lock"@en, "Alcohol lock"@en ;
  schema:description "An ethanol lock fills an unused central line with strong alcohol for a few hours to kill germs inside it, aiming to prevent or clear a line infection. In children with cancer a randomised trial found it did not stop treatment failing and caused more blocked lines, so it is not routine."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/ethanol-lock-therapy/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-11-11"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://europepmc.org/article/MED/29884572>, <https://europepmc.org/article/MED/38130502>, <https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC9096710> ;
  onco:status "emerging" ;
  onco:tag "supportive-care-gaps-2026-11" ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/childhood-cancers/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/supportive-care/>, <https://onco.cc/fronts/devices/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/catheter-lock-solutions/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/tunnelled-cuffed-central-venous-catheters/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/implanted-ports/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/central-venous-access/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/central-line-associated-bloodstream-infection/> .