HBO treatments are FDA approved for the treatment of osteoradionecrosis. Of course this only occurs in radiated patients who have had cancer. It is also a protocol used by the NCI CCC's for complications of healing related to treatment.

Not every doctor out there is up to speed on everything. This is not possible since science changes daily. What we believed a year ago or 10 years ago, isn't necessarily true today in the course of treatments, complications and so much more.

Lastly, it is physically impossible to know if you have a cancer cell, or even a group of 100 of them active in your body. For that matter we all have cells that are going over to the dark side every day, and are being caught by our immune systems and destroyed. If you have an immortalized malignant cell left in your body, it is invulnerable to your immune system and over a period of time it will spin off daughter cells that share its malignant and immortalized nature. Eventually they will have a nice little colony of thousands of their own organized (tumor) and they will instruct your body to begin angiogenesis, which will create new blood vessels to bring them all the new blood supply they can take. That blood supply will of course be full of all the nutrients that our cells - malignant or not - need to live, oxygen being a core member of the family. Additional 02 isn't going to change this process a bit

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.