Cancer and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Green is the medical Color for Oxygen!
A study of the effect of Hyperbaric Oxygenation of Yoshida Sarcoma: Especially on its Influence on the Generation Time.
Osada, T. Nagoya J. Med. Sci. 31, 1968: 243-276.
“HBO at 3 ATA suppressed the mitosis of its cells and potentiated the mitosis suppression by alkylating agents and impairment of DNA synthesis; HBO has an additive effect to chemotherapeutic agents.”
Oxygen Poisoning and Tumor Growth.
Campbell, J.A. Br. J Expl. Path. 18; 1937: 191-197.
"Tumors in rodents were not altered.”
Hyperbaric Oxygen in Experimental Cancer in Mice.
Kluft, O., Boerema, I. Cl. Appl. of Hyperbaric Oxygen. Cited by McCredie, 1966.
“Growth of an allogenic tumor in the mouse was inhibited. Distant metastases were decreased.”
Effects of Hyperbaric Oxygen on Growth and Metastses of the C3HBA Tumor in the Mouse
McCredie, J.A., Inch, W.R., Kruuv, J., Watson, T.A. . Cancer, 19;
1966; 1537-1542.
”Found no effect on tumor growth nor on the incidence of lung metastases.
"The results suggest that the clinical use of HBO is unlikely to increase
the rate of cancer growth or the incidence of metastases."
The Effect of Hyperbaric Oxygen on Pulmonary Metastases in C#H Mice.
Feder, B.H., Stein, J.J., Smith, T.K., Schaeflein, J.W., Boutelle, J.L.,
Conroy, R.M. Radiology, 90:6, 1968: 1181-1184.
”HBO does not enhance the growth rate of distant metastases from C3H
implanted tumor.”
Effects of Breathing Gases Containing Oxygen and Carbon Dioxice at 1 and 3 Atmospheres Pressure on Blood Flow and Oxygenation of Tumors.
Kruuv, J., Inch, W.R., McCredie, J.A. Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol., 45; 1967: 49-56.
”Oxygenation was often improved in the anoxic areas of the tumor in animals breathing O2 at 1 ATA and almost all those at 3 ATA”
Effecto of Duration of Breathing 95% Oxygen plus 5% Carbon Dioxide Before X-irradiation on Cure of C3H Mammary Tumor
Inch, W.R., McCredie, M.A., Sutherland, R.M. Cancer, 25:4; 1970; 926- 931.
“Increased X-Ray Therapy Cure Rate Combined with O2 inhalation.”
Hyperbaric Oxygen and Radiotherapy:
A medical research council trial in carcinoma of the cervix
Watson, E.R., Halnan, K.E., Dische, S., Sanders, M.I., Cade, I.S., McEwen,
J.B., Wiernik, G., Perrins, D.J., Sutherland, I. .
Br. J. Radiol., 51:611, 1978: 879-887.
“Favorable synergistic action of HBO and radiotherapy especially in cancer of the cervix and the head and neck but not the bladder.”
Carcinoma of cervix withy severe anaemia:
Treatment by radiotherapy without blood transfusion using hyperbaric oxygen.
Dische, S., Hewitt, H.B. Br. J. Radiol, 45:539, 1972: 848-850.
“Reported on the use of HBO and radiotherapy on recurrent cancer of the colon and rectum with symptomatic improvement in some cases.”
Does Hyperbaric Oxygenation provoke an Occult Carcinoma in Man?
Ward, et al. Cited by EItorai, I. et al Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress on Hyperbaric Medicine. 1987.
”HBOT was beneficial to cancers in certain cites when combined with radiation, viz.: larynx, salivary glands, tongue, palate, floor of mouth”
High-dose effects in the treatment of carcinoma of the bladder under air and Hyperbaric Oxygen Conditions.
Kirk, J., Wingate, G.W., Watson, E.R. Clin. Radiol. 27:2, 1976: 137-144.
“One third of patients with cancer of the bladder with radiotherapy under HBOT showed high dose effects.”
Radiotherapy and Hyperbaric Oxygen in head and neck cancer. Final report of first controlled clinical trial.
Henk, J.M., Kunkler, P.B., Smith, C.W. Lancet, 2:8028, 1977: 101-103.
“Survival and local recurrence-free rates significantly higher in head and neck cancer when given radiotherapy under HBO.”
Henk, J.M., Smith, C.W. Radiotherapy and Hyperbaric Oxygen in Head and Neck Cancer.
Interim report of 2nd clinical trial. Lancet, 2:8029, 1977: 104-105
Survival and local recurrence-free rates significantly higher in head and neck cancer when given radiotherapy under HBOT.
Does Hyperbaric Oxygenation Provoke an Occult Carcinoma in Man?
Eitorai, I. et al. Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress on Hyperbaric Medicine. 1987.
“HBOT plays some role in sensitizing certain tumors to radiotherapy.”
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