Cancer

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Compiled by Ali Armstrong - October 1999

Internet Address: http://www.hoag.org/ConcernsAboutCare.html

Concerns About Care
This article discusses the side effects that are associated with cancer treatment. It talks about nausea/vomiting, poor nutrition, infection, controlling pain, hair loss, and more. It provides important reminders in each of the areas. Music Therapy has helped reduce some of these some of these symptoms, including pain and nausea.

Internet Address: http://www.manderson,org/`resrep/7/MeyerC.html

Christina A. Meyers, Ph.D.
This internet source examines the side effects of cancer treatment, specifically dealing with mood, cognition, and quality of life. It discusses the causes of these side effects and explains what is going on by citing research in these areas. Music Therapy once again can contribute by increasing mood levels as well as helping with remembering events.

Internet Address: http://www.yourhealth.com/ahl/1132.html

Side Effects (cancer treatment)
This source discusses several side effects directly related to the treatment of cancer and ways that one may relieve some of the symptoms associated with it. It provides a brief definition of certain kinds of treatment. Music Therapy can provide a soothing atmosphere for administration of treatment as well as to alleviate any anxiety one may have about it.

Internet Address: http://www.mayohealth.org/mayo/9603/htm/chemothe.htm

Side Effects are a Part of the War Against Cancer
Mayo Clinic
This site talks about the most common side effects of cancer therapy as well as some ways that one could reduce one of most common ones, nausea. It also goes into depth to discuss each side effect, including providing adequate definitions. Music Therapy may aid in alleviating the nausea that is involved with the treatment of cancer.

Internet Address: http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/clinpÖt/GET_RELIEF_FROM_THE _CANCER_PAIN.html

Get Relief From Cancer
This article discusses the side effects one could get from the pain that is involved with cancer. It describes ways to relieve some pain and ways to cope with some of the side effects directly related to the pain. Music Therapy has been proven to help with decreasing pain, which would in turn may help with the other side effects.

Compiled by Sarah Brudelie - Fall 1999

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Internet Address: http://www2.mc.duke.edu/news/inside/970804/9html

This article discussed a study done by Martha Burke on music therapy in a hospital setting. It was found that people who listened to music prior to surgery had a 21 percent decrease in overall tension, while those who didn't listen to music showed a 5 percent increase. Also, in surveys gauging satisfaction with their hospital stay in general, patients who had music therapy commented positively 69 percent of the time, while in the control group, only 25 percent of the comments were positive. Music therapy addresses the patients as individuals and specifically describes their own perceptions of their hospitalization. One cannot underestimate the value of patients having a positive view of how they've been treated in a hospital. It is a very inexpensive way of improving the level of patient satisfaction.

Internet Address: http://www.planetlink.com/planetaryconnections/iss13/music.html

Joyce Handler is a composer and psychologist who uses music in her private practice, Healing Art. She believes her music addresses a person's needs for hope, encouragement, support, and comfort. The article states how music produces measurable (unseen) benefits; it energizes and it can lower one's blood pressure and can elicit emotional responses. In using music with cancer patients, Handler has taught people how to strengthen their self-esteem and develop trust in relationships.

"Music therapy is one of the newest and most encouraging forms of complementary treatment.'' said Martha Osborne, nurse educator at the center. "We all know how powerful, healing and overwhelming music can be and we hope to help patients and their families get through the challenge of cancer." According to Osborne, music releases many suppressed emotions that cancer patients have and gives them a chance to work through them.

Internet Address: http://www.soundfeelings.com/products/alternative_medicine/music_therapy/cancer.htm

This website provides information on how to attain materials used in music therapy for cancer patients. It includes an audio cassette tape with soothing music known to relax cancer patients. The article explains how music can serve as an alternative form of medicine in the cancer setting as well as the general hospital setting.

Internet Address: http://www.music.msu.edu/notes/fall1997/page02.htm

Internet Address: http://www.aaohn.org.cemodules/smi98art.htm

Integration into Cancer Care. Milton, D. AAOHN Journal 1998; 46(9), 454-461.

Frank (1985) described music therapy as the use of music by a therapist to seek specific changes in a person's physiologic, psychologic, and emotional function. Music is an inexpensive therapy that is familiar to people. Thus, it can be less threatening to them when they are beginning to explore alternative therapies. Inexpensive audiocassettes can be used. Music therapy seems to work better if people select the type of music they prefer to hear. Beck (1991) found that the most popular types of music chosen for relaxation in a study examining the use of music for cancer related pain were easy listening, country and western, and classical. If more resources are available, other types of music could be added to the collection. Many in the workplace may be willing to donate tapes or compact discs that could be used for a wide variety of programs, not just Twenty-two points, plus triple-word-score, plus fifty points for using all my letters. Game's over. I'm outta here.for people with cancer.

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Compiled by Ali Armstrong - October 1999

Compiled by Sarah Brudelie - Fall 1999