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alternative medicine: Zeolite - is this a hoax?

In a company's self-promtion, I found this 'recommendation' of Liquid Zeolite, a natural alternative medicine (or something like that), by the "USA Patent office": "The composition of the present invention is synthesized from a naturally occurring non-toxic zeolite, and has a 100% kill rate within 72 hours against buccal mucosa and ling squamous epithelial cell cancers. It is not cytoxic to healthy human cells…" Source: selfhealingdetox. com Am I paranoid? Should I be paranoid? Should we all be paranoid? In no on-line search of medical terms did I see the combination of the words "ling squamous epithelial cell cancers". 'ling' doesn't exist in ANY online medical dictionary except as a suffix, as in swelling. Could this entry by a US patent office TYPIST be a mere TYPO, allowing the company selling "Liquid Zeolite" to use this official-sounding statement to perusade the public that their product does as they claim? Fiction? Not enuf info to incur a legal sanction?

Public Comments

1. I think ling must be a typo, because why would you advertise a cure for a condition that doesn't exist? Perhaps they mean 'lining'. I would be paranoid too. If they have actually found a substance that will kill 100% of cancerous cells without harming normal cells then that would be called a 'cure for cancer' and they would get a nobel prize or something. It would at least be big news. I would like to know what testing they have done.