Abstract
In the field of health, ozone therapy is a practice of worldwide interest. In Brazil, it is among the procedures present in the National Policy on Integrative and Complementary Practices in Health, of the Unified Health System, aided by numerous treatments, due to the improvement of tissue oxygenation, immunomodulation, as well as its bactericidal, fungicidal and virustactic properties. In this context, the present case aimed to report the experience of using ozone therapy in a male patient, 44 years old, diagnosed with invasive adenocarcinoma of the rectum without surgical treatment. It is, therefore, a case, defined as a professional experience report, which took place between June and August 2021. For the aforementioned case, surgical treatment with tumor resection was prescribed and, after analysis of the post-operative specimen, biopsy, possible chemotherapy was also foreseen, depending on the result of the analysis. However, before the surgical intervention, treatment was performed through rectal ozone therapy. Initially, the tumor, which measured 2.2 cm, evolved to a significant reduction to 1.0 cm, remaining so until the surgical procedure. The disease had an asymptomatic course, being maintained only with ozone therapy. Treatment with ozone therapy proved to be favorable in this study, however, further investigations are suggested, aiming to deepen the benefits of the use of ozone therapy associated with drugs normally indicated for the treatment of this pathology, finally seeking more robust clinical evidence.
Keywords
- Integrative health
- ozone therapy
- cancer
- rectal adenocarcinoma.