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Valerio Nardone1, Claudia Vinciguerra2, Pierpaolo Correale3
1Unit of Radiation Oncology, Ospedale Del Mare, Naples, Italy.
Background:
Effectiveness of music-based interventions (Music therapy, MT) on cancer patients' is a current research theme. Oncology patients may respond to radiation treatment (RT) with anxiety expressed as stress, fear, depression, and frustration.
Objectives:
The aim of this review is to discuss the effectiveness of MT in patients undergoing RT.
Data Sources:
All English medical papers registered in the Web of Knowledge, PubMed, Google Scholar and ScienceDirect from March 1999 to March 2019.
Inclusion And Exclusion Criteria:
We selected all the articles concerning the use of MT in pre-RT anxiety and distress during RT treatment.
Results:
Out of 1184 articles selected, 132 abstracts were analyzed and 13 papers were finally evaluated for the current analysis, for a total of 946 participants.
Discussion:
We investigated the role and the efficacy of MT for patients receiving RT and the future challenges in the clinical management of oncology patients before and during radiotherapy.
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