Hyperbaric Oxygen for Cancer patients

This is a very interesting article on the different applications
of Hyperbaric Oxygen. Actually it is some information I
hadn't read like that before. It looks like HBOT can help repair
some of the damage that occurs during radiation therapy:

"Radiation therapy impairs cellular proliferation, causing a progressive, obliterative endarteritis, which results in hypocellular, hypovascular and hypoxic tissue. This is seen clinically as oedema, ulceration, bony necrosis and poor wound healing that can persist for years after the initial insult. High radiation doses may result in spontaneous radionecrosis.

HBO increases vascular density and oxygenation in radiation-damaged tissue.(1)"

"It improves tissue oxygen gradients and angiogenesis and enhances leukocyte bactericidal activity. Oxygen tension is increased to normal levels, enabling fibroblast proliferation, collagen formation and angiogenesis at the wound edges, further improving oxygenation and re-epithelialization.(2) This facilitates healing and may enable grafts to be placed. "

1. Marx RE, Ehler WJ, Tayapongsak P, Pierce LW. Relationship of oxygen dose to angiogenesis induction in irradiated tissue. Am J Surg 1990; 160:519–24.
2. Greenwood TW, Gilchrist AG. Hyperbaric oxygen and wound healing in post-irradiation head and neck surgery. Br J Surg 1973; 60:394–7