NCI overview explaining that cancer patients may use CAM to cope with treatment side effects, comfort themselves, or try to treat cancer, and that CAM should be discussed with the care team. Used to frame grounding as supportive rather than curative.
Oxygen Therapies
Oxygen Therapies is a oxygen-focused alternative or adjunctive therapy category used for claims about tumor oxygenation, oxidative stress, immune function, or changing the internal environment around cancer. In cancer care, it should be evaluated by evidence level, intended use, safety, interactions, and whether it is being used as conventional treatment, supportive care, an experimental adjunct, or an alternative claim.
Self-controlled study in 20 advanced NSCLC patients inhaling 66.7% hydrogen/33.3% oxygen for 4 hours daily for 2 weeks during a waiting period; reported changes in immune senescence markers.
Review covering hydrogen gas in cancer treatment, including chemotherapy/radiotherapy adverse effects, inflammation, ROS, apoptosis, tumor growth, and preclinical/early clinical evidence.
Proponent explanation defining Brown's gas as a mixed hydrogen/oxygen gas from electrolysis, with claims about additional water/plasma constituents.