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#13508 09-22-2002 10:53 PM | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 5 Member | OP  Member
Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 5 | I have a friend who has stage IV oral cancer. We are thinking of getting hyperbaric oxygen treatment but am not really sure if it will help. I would appreciate any advice or suggestion regarding this.thanks! | | |
#13509 09-23-2002 04:19 AM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 102 Senior Member (100+ posts) | | Senior Member (100+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 102 | Why are you thinking of getting hyperbarics treatments right now? Is your friend finished with treatment?
Julie
Wife to Kelly
SSC tonsil Stage IV
July 2000
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#13510 09-23-2002 06:07 AM | Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 273 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 273 | hyperbaric is used for post radiation to prevent osteoradionecrosis, gets blood flow to the tissue, has your friend had radiation tx???? | | |
#13511 09-23-2002 11:04 AM | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 4 Member | | Member
Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 4 | my mom is doing the HBO oxygen treatmentright now, she only started about 5 days ago. You are right it does help with the blood flow. However we started it for the reason that she was not getting enough blood to the area they operated on.
What does it do during rad. treatments. I do now it is to help scare tissue. | | |
#13512 09-23-2002 11:50 AM | Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 273 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 273 | increases blood flow, post radiation to tissues, helps some with osteoradiorecrosis........hyperbaric is also good for wound healing | | |
#13513 09-23-2002 01:48 PM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 66 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 66 | Juliana,
Please read the section in our web site on hyperbaric oxygen treatments. You can find the main page and other references to it by using the search engine in the web site and enclosing the words you wish it to find together between quotation marks (" "). HBO treatments are for wound healing and not for cancer treatment.
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.
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#13514 09-23-2002 01:59 PM | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 5 Member | | OP Member
Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 5 | thank you guys for the replies. my friend finished radiation last december. he also had 2 open biopsies last june,the wound from the last biopsy hasn't healed completely up to now. He also had 2 sessions of chemo but his family decided to stop it after they got the MRI result which showed that the mass size has grown double since last month. They read somewhere that O2 treatment might help so we're trying that one now. We are also trying alternative medicine. We are desperate to find treatment for him. I feel so helpless seeing him suffer so much.  | | |
#13515 09-23-2002 03:54 PM | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 66 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 66 | Alternatives to conventional medicine may seem like your only choice right now, but few prove to have documentable positive results and usually only are part of a "complimentary" treatment to conventional protocols. If things are not getting better, (mass is significantly larger) please check the clinical trials link on the resources page, you may find through those connections a viable program that he will qualify for. While clinical trials are experimental in nature, sometimes they are the last best hope for a reversal of a negative outcome. You might try this link as a starter http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/action/FindCondition?ui=D009062&recruiting=true
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.
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