Music Therapy For Cancer: Natural, No Side Effects And Free
Lee Euler | Nov 04, 2011 | Comments 15 |
It’s always nice when a scientific study proves what most of us already know: A cancer treatment doesn’t have to involve drugs and a hospital to be effective. And sometimes a good treatment is even FREE.
New research shows music therapy is clearly effective. A scientific review published in August in The Cochrane Reviews shows music can reduce anxiety and pain for cancer patients. That’s because cancer is more than just a physical problem. It also brings emotional pain.
The review included 30 separate studies of more than 1,800 participants who experienced "music intervention." Music was used as a complementary therapy for patients who underwent standard clinical treatments like radiation, chemotherapy and, in some cases, surgery.
One of the most interesting things about this review was that it considered the patients’ music preferences. Patients weren’t asked to listen to standard-order classical music or soothing nature sounds. They chose their own tunes. This meant even heavy metal and hip-hop made the cut in terms of sounds that provide benefits.
Whatever Floats Your Boat
The study indicates that the style of music used doesn’t seem to matter in music therapy — you should go with your own preferences. My gut feeling is that there’s a flaw in this idea, but the researchers found any kind of music can do the job.
But it could be true to this extent: Music therapy doesn’t just soothe. It’s not all about relaxation. It’s also a way to cope with anxiety about your next hospital visit or treatment session. There are other benefits, too, including small improvements in heart rate, respiratory rate and blood pressure.
Of course, the researchers were quick to note the potential for bias in something so subjective. All the same, plenty of studies show music activates the same pleasure centers in the brain as food and sex. Music makes you feel better.
There’s hardly anything bad you can say about music therapy, especially if you’re looking at it as a way to improve conventional treatments like chemotherapy. Music involves very little cost and has virtually no side effects.
If it brings the patient renewed hope and rejuvenation, as these studies say, then it certainly won’t hurt and likely helps. Sounds like a good idea to me.
Potential Decline In Prostate Cancer Overtreatment
In other cancer good news, researchers are getting a new view of prostate cancer. Overtreatment is a big concern in prostate cancer. It can result in serious side effects that last a lifetime, including impotence and incontinence. At least, that’s true of surgery and radiation — the most commonly used therapies for prostate cancer.
That makes it especially interesting to learn that researchers in Sweden and Seattle have identified genetic markers to help pinpoint men with the most aggressive form of prostate cancer.
Most prostate cancer is not aggressive. It’s best left alone. But a small number of prostate tumors — supposedly about 10 percent — grow like crazy and kill fast. That’s what makes so many men and nearly all cancer doctors so willing to hack and burn without pausing to ask if the cancer is aggressive or not.
A test to identify which prostate cancers are aggressive would, thus, be a huge step forward. Recent discoveries offer hope.
The newly identified markers are gene variants known as single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which are gaining ground as indicators for disease progression. In the study, DNA samples from more than 4,000 prostate cancer patients were analyzed for gene variants. Twenty-two SNPs were linked to prostate cancer-specific death; five of those showed significant association.
This discovery could translate to a basic blood test that separates those who need aggressive treatment from those who have non-aggressive prostate cancers.
Prostate cancer kills 30,000 men each year. Roughly 200,000 prostate cancers are diagnosed annually. It tends to be slow-growing, and most men diagnosed are likely to die of other causes before the cancer turns deadly. Still, most prostate cancer patients tend to be treated with radiation or surgery, since there’s no reliable way to figure out whether their cancers are aggressive. At least, that’s been the case until now.
The next step for the researchers involved in this study is to confirm their findings on different groups of patients; let’s hope their results are as promising as this preliminary research.
Dogs Recognize Cancer
On another cancer front, research confirms that dogs can smell cancer. This startling news recently surfaced from Germany. Researchers there tested whether dogs could tell the difference between test tubes with breath samples of cancer patients versus those without cancer.
The dogs, which were trained to lie down in front of the test tubes where they smelled cancer and touch the vials with their noses, had a surprising 71 percent success rate.
Dogs have actually been able to sniff out several forms of the disease, including breast cancer, bowel cancer and colon cancer. An early theory is that cancer cells produce chemical compounds which circulate throughout the body. These same compounds can exit the body in gaseous form via the lungs, affecting the breath of those with the disease.
Scientists aren’t sure exactly how to use dogs as cancer-detection aids, but current thinking points to some kind of early detection process. These findings at least clue us in to the fact that there must be compounds in the breath of patients with cancer. Hopefully, this will be translated into some kind of early warning sign for those likely to develop cancer.
The next step is figuring out what those compounds are. For now, it’s not necessarily useful information, but it sure is interesting.
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Prostate and testicular cancer:
Testicular cancer is cancer that develops in the testicles, a part of the male reproductive system. Testicular cancer usually occurs in young or middle-aged men. Two main types of testicular cancer are seminomas (cancers that grow slowly and are sensitive to radiation therapy) and nonseminomas (different cell types that grow more quickly than seminomas). Testicular cancer has one of the highest cure rates of all cancers: in excess of 90 percent; essentially 100 percent if it has not metastasised.
Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers.[1] The cancer cells may metastasize (spread) from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly the bones and lymph nodes. Prostate cancer may cause pain, difficulty in urinating, problems during sexual intercourse, or erectile dysfunction. Other symptoms can potentially develop during later stages of the disease.
Prostate cancer tends to develop in men over the age of fifty and although it is one of the most prevalent types of cancer in men, many never have symptoms, undergo no therapy, and eventually die of other causes. This is because cancer of the prostate is, in most cases, slow-growing, symptom-free, and since men with the condition are older they often die of causes unrelated to the prostate cancer, such as heart/circulatory disease, pneumonia, other unconnected cancers, or old age. About two-thirds of cases are slow growing, the other third more aggressive and fast developing.[3]
Many factors, including genetics and diet, have been implicated in the development of prostate cancer. The presence of prostate cancer may be indicated by symptoms, physical examination, prostate-specific antigen (PSA), or biopsy. The PSA test increases cancer detection but does not decrease mortality.[4] Suspected prostate cancer is typically confirmed by taking a biopsy of the prostate and examining it under a microscope. Further tests, such as CT scans and bone scans, may be performed to determine whether prostate cancer has spread.
After the age of 50 years men’s should get themselves examine every year as general check up in ultra sound examination of abdomen the enlargement of prostate gland is easily detected. Any problem type of problem in prostate gland can be access by checking the dimensions, volume, and density of prostate gland. In case of the enlargement the doctor can have an easy access to check it by finger biopsy and if required city scan. If malignancy is found then oncologist may suggest further cause of treatment. If the enlargement is marginal it can be controlled through naturopathy however if the enhancement is higher and malignancy conformed by biopsy it is advisable to go for surgery and radiation. To reduce the side effects of allopathy treatment, naturopathy treatment can work most effectively during the preoperative and post operative treatment there is every chance that the cancer may occur after surgery and radiation also due to deficiency of male hormone. The hormones produced from prostate gland are very much essential for proper function of lymphatic system and bone cellular construction function.
Naturopathy can help to bridge up the needs of such hormones by supplying high potential natural nutrients orally or through rectal feeding. The naturopathy massage with juices and oil helps the skeleton to fight against cancer cells. Cold compression on abdomen round a clock is also essential through retention anima the juices fiddling works very nicely since prostate gland are situated very near to anal and the storage of juices in rectum helps to medicate and prevent recurrence of cancer. If the naturopathy treatments are taken regularly as oer advice the chances of recurrence are remote. The regular check up, specific regular symptoms study can certainly save the situation.
Success story: -
A patient age 78 years was diagnosis of prostate cancer. He was operated but in short time the there was a recurrence in bone. The bone of right leg below knee was fractured in two vertical pieces. The oncologist or orthopedic surgeon had no answer. The patient was referred to me and I started the treatment. He was given oral as well external treatment and slowly slowly swelling and pains started reducing. In a couple of months tinme he was free from painkiller. In six-month time the fracture disappeared. And the bones joint as natural position the progress was so satisfactory that he used to go by staircase to third floor and come down. And he started feeling better then he stops the treatment. Which is generally a missing point. The disease spread in utenary bladder with 90mm mass. The oncologist tried without success. Again he came to me and with the treatment of 9 month I was successful in reducing the mass to dust 2 mm.the patient expired not by cancer but heart failure.
I treated another case of prostate and testicular cancer and I could get best quality of life for another three years.
The Music Therapy is certainly important in the treatment of cancer by non-medicinal treatment. The patient is treated by two ways, one by mind & the other one by body. When the mind is isolated from the stress & strain of the disease it works as hypnotism. As a result more energy is made available to beat the disease. No energy is implied in managing mind state. Music therapy or environment in any other hobbies also do the same work.
I WOULD LIKE A COPY OF THE FREE MUSIC.
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I would be very careful about seeming to approve of the recent recommendations to curb the use of PSA tests just because most prostate cancer patients do not die of it or seem to have the aggressive kind. The reason very few die of PC may be that, using the PSA tests, most patients opt for some form of surgery or radiation. These kill the cancer for the most part, so then they don’t die. If PSA tests were not used and the PC was never treated, you really don’t know how many would die of PC or what percentage of PC patients had aggressive PC.
The new tests for aggressive PC look great, but they are new. We have never had a test for this before. Yes, PC is slow to grow, but what percentage of PC patients have aggressive versus slow PC is really unknown since most PC patients have their PC treated.
The current effort to limit PSA tests just because only 3% of PC patients die of PC eventually is therefore very misguided.
I think you could also say the same about listening to comedy as this article says about listening to music. They do improve overall health, but I am still unclear as to how this relates to survival from cancer.
Qigong helps cancer and about 200 other diseases. It is a body mind-therapy, involving breathing, which is a branch of Chinese medicine and practiced by millions worldwide. it is not strenuous and is easier to learn and practice than Yoga, Tai chi or Pilates.
wow thats neat… i would like the free copy of the music..
thanks and God Bless you….
Please send me a copy of the music….THANKS
I’ve tried just about everything except music therapy. I’ve meditated for three years and as a lover of music I don’t know why I hadn’t thought of it as therapy before.
Please do send to me a free copy of your music. I have a good feeling about it already.
In peace and love
Rob
music for cancer therapy??? i hope there is a good cure to go with the therapy otherwise the only song you’ll be hearing is “Taps”
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