Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Cancer Survivors: How HBOT Heals Radiation-Damaged Tissue
Radiation therapy saves lives. It also destroys the tissue in its path — permanently damaging blood vessels, creating lifelong hypoxia, and leaving survivors with complications that standard medicine has no mechanism to address. HBOT has that mechanism. hyperbaric oxygen therapy and cancer — radiation injury survivors HBOT tissue repair angiogenesis Hyperbaric oxygen therapy and cancer survivor care occupy the same clinical space for one reason: radiation permanently destroys the blood supply of the tissue it treats. Cancer cells die. The treatment works. But the radiation that kills tumour cells does not spare the healthy tissue in the radiation field. Blood vessels thicken and narrow. Capillaries are obliterated. The tissue that remains — the tissue the patient will live in for decades after remission — becomes chronically hypoxic, poorly healed, and incapable of responding to further treatment or surgical intervention. This is late radiation injury. It is not a complication of...