SYNOPSIS IN INTERLINGUA LE EFFECTO LOCAL EXERCITE SUPER LE CAVITATE VESTIBULAR DEL HAMSTER PER ALCOHOL IN COMBINATION CON DMBA (7,12-DIMETHYL-BENz-(a)-ANTHRACENo).-Le cavitates esseva pingite con solutiones de DMBA in oleo mineral, solutiones de DMBA in alcohol ethylic, oleo mineral, e alcohol ethylic durante 9 septimanas e tenite sub observation durante 18. Le periodos latente e le magnitude e numero del resultant tumores esseva registrate. Le constatationes microscopic esseva correlationate subsequentemente con le constatationes clinic. Le cavitates tractate con DMBA in alcohol exhibiva tumores plus precocemente e de magnitude e numero plus grande que cavitates tractate con DMBA in oleo mineral. Alcohol sol non produceva tumores. Per consequente il pare que alcohol age localmente como agente promotori in experimental carcinogenese oral.Numerous clinical statistical and epidemiological reports attest to the strong correlation existing between oral cancer and the drinking of alcohol and smoking of tobacco.'-3 Ketcham, Wexler, and Mantel4 have studied the effect of alcohol as source of fluid intake upon skin carcinogenesis in mice and found the alcohol regimen did not alter carcinogenesis or stimulate the metastatic spread of tumor transplant. Protzel, Giardina, and Albano5 studied one hypothesis regarding the relation of alcohol to oral cancer. Their study assumed that alcohol primarily affected the liver, producing cirrhosis and thus interfering with the metabolism of the carcinogen (benzpyrene) in the hepatobiliary system. Alcohol-drinking rats, the buccal mucosas of which were painted with a carcinogen, developed liver damage and decreased latency with increased frequency of oral tumor development. The investigators further suggested a second role of alcohol in oral carcinogenesis, namely that it may act as a promoter or cocarcinogen on the exposed oral membranes. Since the work of Berenblum6 and the postulation of a two-stage phenomenon of carcinogenesis consisting of an initiation and promotion stage, agents such as irritation,7 polyoxyethylene sorbitan monosterate (Tween 60),8 and croton oil9 have been successfully shown This study was supported by USPHS institutional grant S01 FR 5345-04.