Radiation Proctitis and Radiation Cystitis

Late consequences in the treatment of gynaecological or urological tumours

Surrounding tissue can also be affected during irradiation. The small blood vessels and also the mucosa of the bladder and intestines are especially sensitive to radiation during prostata radiation.

These unavoidable side effects can actually lead to serious complaints:

• Inflammation of the bladder or radiocystitis with pain when passing water, a regular urge to urinate, urinary incontinence, bleeding, fistula of the bladder and bladder shrinkage
• Proctitis or radioproctitis with pain when sitting, diarrhoea, passing blood, fistula formation.

These complaints compromise quality of life. They often lead to transfusions and other painful interventions. This need not be the case.

Radiation Proctitis and Radiation Cystitis: HBOT helps in case of urine bladder damage and rectal damage after radiation

These complaints compromise quality of life. Often, they lead to blood transfusions and other painful interventions, such as bladder removal and formation of an artificial anus. This need not be the case.

HBOT  - Hyperbaric oxygen therapy or pressure chamber therapy - is able to regenerate tissue damaged by irradiation, including internal tissue. Due to HBOT, more oxygen enters the tissue where also the blood flow is improved because new blood vessel formation is initiated. This way, even chronic wounds in inside body radiation areas can heal. HBOT is able to avoid the slow aggravation of chronic late consequences. This can result in a quality of life which is completely new.

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for radiation proctitis and radiation cystitis: Physicians and Patient working hand in hand

Allow yourself to receive careful advice from our doctors. Together with your physician (GP, urologist, surgeon, gynaecologist, radiation therapist), the HBOT specialist will prepare a treatment programme that accounts for your complaints. Be it ambulant care with hyperbaric oxygen therapy or more extensive, interdisciplinary care in the HBO2-day clinic attached to the Pressure Chamber Centre of Freiburg.

What you want: No more pain, no more blood in your urine or stool, no blood transfusions …
Click here for individual advice from our team of doctors.

Zuletzt aktualisiert am Dienstag, 14. September 2010