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Radiation-induced intestinal damage is what oncologists call the short and long-term damage that cancer patients can sustain when getting radiation therapy to their lower back, pelvis, stomach, pretty much anywhere near the mid-section of their body.
In fairness, I have to begin this post by saying that the radiation quelled the bone pain that resulted from my bone lesions. In my case local radiation was the typical “palliative” therapy for a person with my cancer- multiple myeloma.
Palliative therapy bought me the six months I needed to undergo an alternative therapy that put me into complete remission.
Radiation-induced intestinal damage refers to damage to the intestines caused by exposure to ionizing radiation. Ionizing radiation has enough energy to remove tightly bound electrons from atoms, leading to the formation of ions and free radicals. This type of radiation is commonly used in medical treatments such as radiotherapy for cancer, but it can also result from accidental exposure or radiation therapy for non-cancerous conditions.
The intestines are particularly sensitive to radiation because they contain rapidly dividing cells, which are more susceptible to the effects of ionizing radiation. Radiation-induced intestinal damage can manifest in several ways:
The purpose for this blog post is:
Conventional oncology does not promote non-conventional therapies such as supplementation or HBOT. Therefore, you, the patient, must think outside the conventional oncology box.
Have you been diagnosed with cancer? What type? What stage? Are you or have you undergoing radiation to your mid-section? Let me know if you’d like to learn more about Side Effect therapies. David.PeopleBeatingCancer@gmail.com
Hang in there,
David Emerson
“Background: Ionizing radiation can cause intestinal microecological dysbiosis, resulting in changes in the composition and function of gut microbiota. Altered gut microbiota is closely related to the development and progression of radiation-induced intestinal damage. Although microbiota-oriented therapeutic options such as fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) have shown some efficacy in treating radiation toxicity, safety concerns endure.
Therefore, fecal bacteria-free filtrate transplantation (FFT), which has the potential to become a possible alternative therapy, is well worth investigating.
Herein, we performed FFT in a mouse model of radiation exposure and monitored its effects on radiation damage phenotypes, gut microbiota, and metabolomic profiles to assess the effectiveness of FFT as an alternative therapy to FMT safety concerns…
Conclusions: FFT improves radiation-induced intestinal microecological dysbiosis by reshaping intestinal mucosal barrier function, gut microbiota configurations, and host metabolic profiles, highlighting FFT regimen as a promising safe alternative therapy for FMT is effective in the treatment of radiation intestinal injury.
“Radiotherapy is a mainstay of oncological treatment for a variety of malignant diseases and is commonly administered to the abdomen and pelvis of patients with gastrointestinal (GI), urological and gynaecological cancers. It is recognised that patients may subsequently develop a range of GI side effects.
Radiation damage to small bowel tissue can cause acute or chronic radiation enteritis producing symptoms such as pain, bloating, nausea, faecal urgency, diarrhoea and rectal bleeding which can have a significant impact on patient’s quality of life.
‘Radiation enteritis’ is a term traditionally used to define injury to the small intestine resulting from radiotherapy…
There has been a recent consensus that ‘pelvic radiation disease’ most accurately describes the phenomena of GI injury secondary to radiotherapy, however ‘radiation-induced small bowel disease’ is probably the most accurate description of the disease process and will be used within this paper…