PubMed-indexed research reference found for Art / Expressive Therapies in relation to cancer or oncology.
Art / Expressive Therapies
Creative practices such as painting, writing, movement, or expressive arts for coping and emotional processing. This protocol is categorized as Other Approaches and is included because people commonly use it as a non-medical, complementary, or supportive cancer-care approach. PROS May reduce stress, anxiety, distress, sleep problems, pain perception, or treatment-related symptom burden as supportive care.
NCI overview explaining that cancer patients may use CAM to cope with treatment side effects, comfort themselves, or try to treat cancer, and that CAM should be discussed with the care team. Used to frame grounding as supportive rather than curative.
PubMed-indexed research reference found for Art / Expressive Therapies in relation to cancer or oncology.
PubMed-indexed research reference found for Art / Expressive Therapies in relation to cancer or oncology.