Nowadays, there is more and more scientific support for the use of medical ozone as an integrative method to the current radiotherapy and chemotherapy protocols. Especially, in the times we live in where integrative medicine is opening a little more the way to give effective solutions to different ailments of the modern population and it would not be less the use of ozone in oncological processes where its multiple benefits are, as I said before, more demonstrable.
It is well known of the multiple benefits that ozone brings to our organism: greater oxygenation of the tissues (due to nitric oxide as a by-product), improved blood flow, intervention in the autacoids (enzyme modulators), immunomodulation of the defence system, broad spectrum antimicrobial (bacteria, spores, viruses, fungi, protozoa, etc.), metabolic regulator (bacteria, spores, viruses, fungi, protozoa, etc.), etc., etc. ), metabolic regulator (glycaemia and hyperlipidaemia) and stimulation of the natural antioxidant capacity by means of powerful enzymes such as glutathione, superoxide dismutase, catalase, etc.
With all these benefits at the level of so many powerful physiological processes, chemical cascades and others, ozone and its organic by-products would be no less effective in helping to slow down oncological processes and even in concomitant use with medical protocol treatments such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
Studies on patients diagnosed with breast cancer with ozone therapy show results such as the improvement of various immunological parameters and a decrease in the incidence and degree of affectation of the toxic effect of cytostatics. [1].
In cancer, one of the factors to take into account is the inflammation produced by oxidants which contribute to oncological processes, activating processes such as cytotoxicity and cell proliferation, direct genotoxic damage, inducing genes encoding transcription factors, promoting the transformation of malignant cells, activation of procarcinogens to genotoxic and cytotoxic species and enhancing the carcinogenesis of toxic substances.
In addition to all this, it is important to bear in mind that many viral infections are capable of degenerating the immune system so much that they enhance or facilitate the appearance of cancers, there being a direct association between these infections and oncological processes (Hepatitis B with liver cancer, human herpes virus 8 with Kaposi associated with HIV-1, human papilloma with cervical, vulvar, penile, anal and oropharyngeal cancer, among other types of associations).
Due to all this, it can be concluded that the use of ozone therapy is a perfect coadjuvant not only to improve the side effects produced by chemotherapy and radiotherapy, nor to give the patient a better quality of life, but goes beyond this, balancing the balance of the antioxidant (redox) system and boosting the immune system by multiple biochemical and physiological cascades due to the stimulus produced by the by-products of ozone contact in the body such as peroxides. [2].
Also other by-products such as lipoperoxides are able to act on endothelial cells by enhancing the formation of nitric oxide and thiol nitric oxide thiol clusters, which in turn increase oxygen supply by improving microcirculation in tumour tissues.
In summary, the appropriate use of ozone therapy in oncology achieves benefits such as:
- Regulation of oxygen metabolism, restoring oxygen supply to tissues and thereby the aerobic pathway of energy production.
- Metabolic regulation and reduction of lactic acidosis.
- Transient production of oxidation which affects tumour cells but not healthy cells.
- Regulation of the immune system which aids in the elimination of abnormal cells.
- Inhibits the growth of cancer cells and increases the effectiveness of chemotherapy. [3 .4.]
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Dr. Freddy Acevedo Ruiz
Dir. Biocentro Acevedo, Medicina Integrativa. VIGO
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Kontorschikova Claudia N, Alaysova Anna V, Terentiev Igor G. Ozonetherapy in a Complex Treatment of Breast Cancer. In: Proceedings of the 15th Ozone World Congress, 11th – 15th September 2001, Medical Therapy Conference (IOA 2001, Ed.), Speedprint Macmedia Ltd, Ealing, London, UK, 2001.
- Oxigen – ozonetherapy Bocci V. 2002. Kluwer academy plubishers
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