Music Therapy & Cancer
Music Therapy can be beneficial to those undergoing invasive and painful medical procedures for cancer.
Both Elizabeth Harman and Debbie Bates work as full-time Music Therapists with children and patients undergoing such treatments. This allows the patients to have “…a voice—to make choices, to retain their identities as healthy individuals while facing illness, and to have their experiences be heard and validated.”
It is a treatment that gives some humanness back to the patients that medicine simply cannot offer.
The healing power of music