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1. Prostate and Rectal Cancer Radiation - can cause diarrhea, bleeding, rectal pain, and incontinence. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy improves symptoms in 50 to 60 percent of patients, sometimes completely.
2. Cervical and Bladder Cancer Radiation - can cause severe pain and bleeding due to radiation cystitis (inflammation of the bladder). This AMA approved treatment has been 75 percent successful in resolving these symptoms.
3. Radiation to the Head, Oral, and Neck - can cause bone, skin, and oral tissue damage. Open wounds, oral ulcers, the potential for hemorrhage (bleeding), and pain on swallowing are side effects radiation-treated patients can suffer. Hyperbaric oxygen is 83 percent successful in improving symptoms for these patients.
4. Radiation treatment of the Brain - can result in memory loss, impaired thinking ability (cognition), reduced sexual desire, hormonal changes. personality disturbances, sleep disruption, nausea, unsteadiness, and visual changes. These effects often show up months or years after radiation treatment. The success rate in halting the progression of, or reversing, brain damage was approximately 90 percent.