INTEGRATIVE ONCOLOGICAL TREATMENTS
Our medical commitment is providing high standards of oncological protocols that can be more suitable for your health needs. We offer multimodal integrative treatments with variable options for every patient.
Our oncological practice is oriented in the line of INTEGRATIVE CANCER CARE, including cutting edge immunotherapy protocols not available in the USA, targeted radiation, and cytostatic therapy (if required) among many other modalities.
Adjunctive immunological therapies such as hyperbaric oxygen therapy and regenerative IV therapies are combined to maximize the process of recovery when patients are undergoing oncological treatments.
Our team of skilled physicians, including experts with international practice backgrounds, will guide you in establishing an accurate treatment protocol tailored to meet your quality of life expectations.
Our medical facility is conveniently located within the Grand Hotel Tijuana Medical Complex, one of the largest business complexes in northern Mexico. We are just 10 minutes away from the US/MEX International Border, situated in the main medical district of town.
Our facility is surrounded by many first-class restaurants and shopping centers, providing easy access and convenience for both local and international patients.
It is important to state, that our close relationships with the very best oncological services in northern México, enable us to implement our treatments and therapies more efficiently. Our Staff of experts will explain step by step the schedule to be followed prior to your arrival.
For your convenience, we offer a special hotel accommodation rate for our patients. After gathering the necessary information about your medical condition, we will create an individually tailored treatment proposal.
Once all details have been thoroughly explained and understood, and when you are ready to travel, we will make your hotel reservation, which can be paid directly upon check-in at the hotel’s front desk.
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Cancer
HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY (HBOT). It has been long known in the medical field that proper healing of the body and resistance to infection cannot occur without oxygen. Oxygen is believed to be required for all the major processes involved in wound healing, including resistance to infection, activation of fibroblasts, collagen deposition, angiogenesis, and epithelization. Under normal circumstances, oxygen is carried through the body by red blood cells only, this is sufficient for a healthy person to have all the oxygen required to maintain normal functioning. But what about when someone is sick and how does this play a role in cancer treatment?
Cancerous tumors are surrounded by an environment that is lacking oxygen (hypoxic). This hypoxic environment is a typical hallmark within solid tumors and basically a protective shield for anything that threatens to kill the tumor. Hypoxia directly involves enhanced tumor cell survival, angiogenesis, glycolytic metabolism, and metastasis. On top of that, hypoxia has been shown to increase genetic instability, activate invasive growth, and also maintain the cancer cell in its rapidly dividing undifferentiated state. Not only does hypoxia enable cancer tumor growth and proliferation, studies have shown that hypoxia is also implicated in the resistance to chemotherapy and radiation. This is due to a decreased efficiency in delivery to a hypoxic area, also, hypoxia induces cellular adaptations which lead to resistance. All of this means that higher chemotherapy and radiation doses are required to overcome the hypoxia. This can be a dangerous cycle that only fuels cancer growth, so what is an alternative treatment plan?
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a medical treatment where a patient receives 100% pure oxygen, either delivered through a tube or in a pressurized room. When undergoing HBOT, oxygen gets into all bodily fluids (not just the red blood cells) including organs,
bones, lymph, plasma, and central nervous system fluids, enabling oxygen to reach all areas of the body that red blood cells may not be able to get to, providing concentrated oxygen to any damaged tissues to promote healing.
HBOT can significantly reduce inflammation in the body. High levels of oxygen can promote the growth of new blood vessels but not the growth of cancer cells because these thrive in anaerobic environment. Since cancer cells proliferate anaerobically, the increased concentrated oxygen to a tumor area will not only prevent further growth but it will overwhelm the cancer cells inducing apoptosis (cellular death). When a patient is undergoing chemotherapy and radiation, which can be toxic to normal cells, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) can help rejuvenate those cells. Additionally, HBOT reduces hypoxia surrounding the tumor, making tumor cells more sensitive to chemotherapy and radiation. By increasing oxygen in a hypoxic area, HBOT effectively removes the “protective shield” around the tumor, leaving it more susceptible to radiation.
Forcing oxygen into cells that multiply anaerobically will kill them because they do not have the defense mechanisms needed to survive. Furthermore, radiation (which is more local than chemotherapy) forms unstable hydrogen and hydroxyl radicals. These radicals react with molecular oxygen leading to serious DNA strand damage and cell death.
This leads scientists to conclude that radiation treatment gives an optimal therapeutic result in well-oxygenated tumor tissue. HBOT can also repair any chronic damages caused by radiation exposure, as well as reducing the side effects when undergoing chemotherapy and radiation. Known side effects (such as dizziness, fatigue, weakness, and shortness of breath) are due to anemia (lack of oxygen-carrying by red blood cells). HBOT can help to fight back the side effects of anemia by increasing concentration of oxygen molecules in the blood stream. Chemotherapy and radiation can also favor inflammation, infection and wounds that do not heal due to decreased white blood cells. With HBOT, oxygen can get into the lymphatic system and help restore white blood cell levels. Chemotherapy can also cause low platelet count, this will lead to increased bruising and bleeding; patients may experience nosebleeds, bleeding gums, blood in urine or stool and for women; it can cause a heavier menstrual flow. With HBOT, oxygen molecules can get into the plasma and help boost platelet count
O-xygen is a pristine environment clinic that integrates regenerative biomedicine with a holistic approach.
