Cancer

Cancer

There are more than 200 kinds of cancers, all unique in their symptoms, prognoses, and responses to standard treatments of care (chemotherapy, radiation, etc.). While these standard treatments are important in the fight against cancer, they can often bring their own health problems, including impairing the body’s healthy cells, causing inflammation, and leading to various negative health consequences. There are also times that these treatments can be ineffective. Therefore, many therapies have been developed to improve and assist these standard treatments. These are known as adjunct therapies, and at Re-Gen Fitness and Recovery, we have several of the most effective, evidence-based therapies to help in the fight against, and recovery from, cancer.

HBOT 

Hyperbaric oxygen has been shown to improve the effectiveness of cancer treatments, while also protecting individuals from the negative health consequences of these treatment plans. Studies show that 25-50 HBOT sessions have the ability to increase the sensitivity of tumors to chemotherapy and radiation, leading to better treatment outcomes, while also protecting the body against some of their damaging effects. In one study, an average of 36 HBOT sessions led to a 50% improvement in symptoms related to radiation for prostate cancer. In another, 26 sessions significantly reduced the health issues related to radiation therapy, including bleeding, fatigue, and number of visits to the hospital. Although research in the ability of HBOT to fight cancer alone is limited, it has been shown to be an important adjunct therapy in the fight against cancer. It should be noted that it was once hypothesized that HBOT could increase the growth of cancer cells, however this has been conclusively determined through research that not only does HBOT not do this, but rather it has the potential to disrupt cancer cell growth.