HYBAROXIC RADIOTHERAPY: SOME OBSERVATIONS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CLINICAL APPLICATION AND TECHNIQUE

¹ SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Above all else, the radiotherapist must never ignore the axiom that hybaroxia protects no tissue; it is merely a method of restoring a lost radiation sensitivity to the anoxic portions of a cancer cell mass. Only when such pertains can it be of any value in the treatment of cancer by radiation therapy. Hyperbaric oxygen gives no license to violate radiotherapeutic truths learned through the experience of conventional methods. However, in that large and important group of cancers that respond well and early to modest doses of radiation but require high doses to cure, one has reason to expect that all of the cancer cells will respond to the lower total dose when irradiated in high pressure oxygen. From nonradiologic hybaroxia patients, one observes the general metabolic support, bacterial suppression, toxin oxidation and improved patient tolerance that make radiation therapy of cancer less of an ordeal for the patient when supplemented with this modality.

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