Music interventions for improving psychological and physical outcomes in cancer patients

The August 2011 batch of new Cochrane reviews includes the latest in a programme of research on music therapy. The review looks at the effects for patients with cancer and Joke Bradt, from Drexel University in Philadelphia, USA describes the work she has done with colleagues in the USA, Australia and India.

She worked on this review with Cheryl Dileo from Temple University in Philadelphia USA and Denise Grocke from the University of Melbourne in Australia (pictured below), and Lucanne Magil,l Clinical practice coordinator and Course Tutor for The Music Therapy Trust India/Nepal in India (not pictured).