by HBOT News | Apr 21, 1999 | Carcinoma
Abstract: The beneficial effects of chemotherapy in patients with advanced head and neck cancer remain controversial in terms of survival, but have shown some promise in improving locoregional control and quality of life. In an effort to improve locoregional control...
by HBOT News | Apr 16, 1999 | Cancer
Abstract: Coles, Williams, Burnet, , , , , , (1999). Hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Combination with radiotherapy in cancer is of proved benefit but rarely used. BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 1999 Apr;318(7190):1076-7; author reply...
by HBOT News | May 6, 1998 | Cancer
Abstract: Currently, advanced prostate cancer (CaP) is not curable. In this report hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) is examined as an adjuvant to chemotherapy and as a stand-alone treatment. CaP cell monolayers grown under normoxic conditions were exposed to cisplatin, taxol...
by HBOT News | Mar 13, 1998 | Carcinoma
Abstract: A retrospective review of the fixed mandibular implant (FMI) in oral cancer patients is presented. Success of the device and associated complications are discussed. Eighteen oral cancer patients with an FMI were identified. All were treated at a single...
by HBOT News | Jul 1, 1997 | Cancer
Abstract: Following radical oral cancer surgery and postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy with a total dose of 60 Gy, 71 IMZ and 150 Brånemark implants were placed in the mandibles and 28 Brånemark implants were placed in the maxillas of 60 patients between 1985 and...