Hyperbaric oxygen therapy and cancer - A review

Targeted Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 233-242

  Moen, Ingrid ^a   Stuhr, Linda E B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cancer; Hyperbaric oxygen therapy; Hypoxia

Indexed keywords

ARTEMISININ; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DISULFIRAM; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; MAFENIDE ACETATE; MELPHALAN; NIMUSTINE; PACLITAXEL; PIRARUBICIN; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE;

APOPTOSIS; ASTROCYTOMA; BLADDER CANCER; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER CELL; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CELL SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COLON CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL CANCER; EPITHELIAL MESENCHYMAL TRANSITION; GLIOBLASTOMA; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPOXIA; LEUKEMIA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; METASTASIS; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OSTEOSARCOMA; OVARY CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ANIMALS; CELL HYPOXIA; CELL RESPIRATION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; NEOPLASMS; OXYGEN;

EID: 84874491759     PISSN: 17762596     EISSN: 1776260X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11523-012-0233-x     Document Type: Review

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