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Completing breast cancer treatment is a huge milestone — a moment to celebrate moving forward. But sometimes, months or even years later, side effects from radiotherapy can appear. These may include skin changes, pain, swelling, or wounds that are slow to heal. They can be frustrating and worrying, especially when you’ve already come through so much.

For many people, radiation therapy is a powerful, life-saving treatment for cancer. However, it can leave lasting changes in the healthy tissue surrounding the treated area.

When a skin graft or a skin flap struggles to take, it is usually because the tissue is not receiving enough oxygen to heal. This is a recognised situation where hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can help, used alongside, never instead of, standard medical care.

Rare Disease Day shines a light on conditions that are often overlooked or misunderstood. While non-healing wounds aren’t rare in the strict medical sense, they can be underestimated.

For many people, radiation therapy is a powerful, life-saving treatment for cancer. However, it can leave lasting changes in the healthy tissue surrounding the treated area.

When exploring a new treatment, it is reasonable to want to understand it first. On World Patient Safety Day, it is worth setting out clearly how hyperbaric oxygen therapy works.

When a skin graft or a skin flap struggles to take, it is usually because the tissue is not receiving enough oxygen to heal. This is a recognised situation where hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) can help, used alongside, not instead of, standard medical care.

Living with a diabetic foot ulcer that is not healing can be exhausting, painful, and stressful.

As summer arrives, so too does barbecue season and more time spent working and socialising outside. While these moments are part of everyday life across Ireland, especially in farming and agricultural communities, they also bring a higher risk of sunburn and burns from hot surfaces, flames, machinery or chemical exposure.

The team at OxyGeneration are celebrating Race Week in Galway – an iconic week of sport, excitement, and world-class performance. Whether you’re gearing up to ride, recovering from a recent race, or simply soaking up the atmosphere, putting up with an injury during Race Week can be extremely frustrating.