And that means a slower recovery time. Angela Lott has had chemotherapy for the past 5 months. But now, she has chemotherapy with surroundsound. The pre-k teacher and mother often uses music to help relax children at naptime. I used it for that aspect but I never thought I'd be using it for chemo.
Patients are often shy about telling their doctors they have pain.
That's in part the reason for new national guidelines this year that require doctors to ask about pain and to treat it. Music is a part of an M.D. Anderson study on pain. Following each treatment, patients are asked to rate their level of pain. Dr. Charles Cleeland, who is conducting M.D. Anderson's Octophonic Sound Study, helped write the national guidelines for treating cancer pain. He says there is no reason for a person to be stoic and suffer ongoing pain.