Before getting into the ways it helps, let’s touch on how cancer affects you and what this therapy entails.
Various Ways Cancer Affects You
We know there are two main ways cancer affects you: the cancer itself causes pain and various health problems, depending on what type of cancer it is, and the treatments to fight the cancer have many side effects of their own.
Both of these things combined are what make cancer so awful of an impact on your life, taking away your energy and preventing you from being able to truly live.
In general, the main ways these will affect you are by causing you fatigue, insomnia, pain, anemia, hair loss, stomach upsets, etc.
What Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Is And Does
In case you aren’t familiar with what hyperbaric oxygen therapy is, it’s a chamber you go into that increases the pressure and oxygen while you lay in there for a while.
The extra oxygen means there is more for your lungs to absorb, and the added pressure helps your lungs make the most of the opportunity to get the additional oxygen in your blood.
How This Therapy Helps With Cancer
Many types of cancerous tumors cause hypoxia, which is a lack of oxygen in the tissue of the surrounding area. Obviously, hyperbaric oxygen helps with this by getting oxygen to the area.
Something being studied as we write this is the possibility that oxygen-rich cells help prevent certain types of cancer from forming or spreading. Though this is an area in need of more evidence, there have been enough studies done to show that it certainly doesn’t hurt.
How This Therapy Helps With Side Effects
As mentioned, some of the side effects aren’t from the cancer at all but rather from the treatments used for it.
One of the worst of these is radiation necrosis, but there are also many other ways in which both the cancer itself, and especially the treatments, cause damage to your cells. When your body has more oxygen flowing through it, it’s able to repair itself faster on top of being harder to damage in the first place.
Other side effects, like fatigue and stomach issues, also benefit from added oxygen. Having plenty of oxygen helps you feel more energized and assists with your sleep patterns, so you are more rested.
As for your stomach, the beneficial effect is more indirect, but as oxygen helps your body move nutrients around, it also helps your digestion, which also ensures you get the nutrients from your food that you need.
In short, oxygen helps everything.
Ontario, CA - Hyperbaric Therapy Services for Cancer Recovery | Wellness Center
SYNOPSIS: Although it is newer, we at Recovery Lab of Rancho Cucamonga know how helpful hyperbaric oxygen therapy is for those who suffer from cancer, and we also know how crucial every little bit of help is.
Cancer Is Awful, But Hyperbaric Therapy Can Help
BY: Jose Zuniga, Recovery Lab of Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Before getting into the ways it helps, let’s touch on how cancer affects you and what this therapy entails.
Various Ways Cancer Affects You
We know there are two main ways cancer affects you: the cancer itself causes pain and various health problems, depending on what type of cancer it is, and the treatments to fight the cancer have many side effects of their own.
Both of these things combined are what make cancer so awful of an impact on your life, taking away your energy and preventing you from being able to truly live.
In general, the main ways these will affect you are by causing you fatigue, insomnia, pain, anemia, hair loss, stomach upsets, etc.
What Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Is And Does
In case you aren’t familiar with what hyperbaric oxygen therapy is, it’s a chamber you go into that increases the pressure and oxygen while you lay in there for a while.
The extra oxygen means there is more for your lungs to absorb, and the added pressure helps your lungs make the most of the opportunity to get the additional oxygen in your blood.
How This Therapy Helps With Cancer
Many types of cancerous tumors cause hypoxia, which is a lack of oxygen in the tissue of the surrounding area. Obviously, hyperbaric oxygen helps with this by getting oxygen to the area.
Something being studied as we write this is the possibility that oxygen-rich cells help prevent certain types of cancer from forming or spreading. Though this is an area in need of more evidence, there have been enough studies done to show that it certainly doesn’t hurt.
How This Therapy Helps With Side Effects
As mentioned, some of the side effects aren’t from the cancer at all but rather from the treatments used for it.
One of the worst of these is radiation necrosis, but there are also many other ways in which both the cancer itself, and especially the treatments, cause damage to your cells. When your body has more oxygen flowing through it, it’s able to repair itself faster on top of being harder to damage in the first place.
Other side effects, like fatigue and stomach issues, also benefit from added oxygen. Having plenty of oxygen helps you feel more energized and assists with your sleep patterns, so you are more rested.
As for your stomach, the beneficial effect is more indirect, but as oxygen helps your body move nutrients around, it also helps your digestion, which also ensures you get the nutrients from your food that you need.
In short, oxygen helps everything.
