Abstract: For 12 years randomised clinical trials have been run at Portsmouth in collaboration with the Medical Research Council's Working Party on radiotherapy and high pressure oxygen to determine the survival rate of patients treated by megavoltage radiotherapy in...
Abstract: A lotion of benzoyl peroxide was applied postoperatively to chemosurgical wounds in a small group of patients. The technique of utilizing dressings of benzoyl peroxide is described and illustrated. Enhanced wound healing was observed in all cases. The...
Abstract: We report the results of a prospective controlled trial of the effect of hyperbaric oxygen as an adjuvant in radiotherapy of head and neck cancer. Patients were allocated randomly to treatment in oxygen or air. The radiotherapy in both groups was identical...
Abstract: A controlled clinical trial is in progress to assess the value of hyperbaric oxygen and radiotherapy in the management of head and neck cancer. An established dose-fractionation schedule in hyperbaric oxygen is being compared with a widely used conventional...
Abstract: Sealy, Berry, Ryall, Mills, Sellars, , , , (). The treatment of carcinoma of the nasopharynx in hyperbaric oxygen: an outside assessment. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics,...
Abstract: Significant recent achievement in radiotherapy are presented, with brief discussions of brachytherapy, clinical dose-rate effects, ultrafractionation, and total and half-body irradiation. Reports on radiation modifiers, including hyperbaric oxygen, chemical...
Abstract: Autoradiographic study was made on 24 cases of uterine cervical tumor, including 22 cases of squamous cell carcinoma, using a technique of in vitro labeling of surgical specimens with tritiated thymidine (3H-TdR) under hyperbaric oxygen. Labeling index of...
Abstract: Twenty-seven patients with carcinoma of the bladder were treated at the Glasgow Institute of Radiotherapeutics as part of a national hyperbaric oxygen trial. These patients were treated on a 4 MeV linear accelerator either in air or in 3 atm, absolute, of...
Abstract: A case of Clostridium perfringens sepsis and gas gangrene complicating chemotherapy for gestational choriocarcinoma is reported. The infection was eradicated using antibiotics, surgery, and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The pathophysiology, diagnosis, and...
