Salt Lake City-based University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute is employing virtual reality to help patients manage side effects and symptoms of prostate cancer treatment. Through a Defense ...

In a bid to better understand the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer, several healthcare organisations have banded together to develop the use of VR in its diagnostics. The team, composed of CSIRO ...

AppliedVR teamed up with the National Cancer Institute to study the feasibility of VR to alleviate anxiety in brain tumor patients undergoing imaging scans. The research partners recently announced ...

A 10-minute virtual reality (VR) session significantly lessened pain in hospitalized patients with cancer in a recent clinical trial published by Wiley online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the ...

Immersive virtual reality - digital technology that allows a person to experience being physically present in a non-physical world - seems to ease the pain and distress felt by patients with cancer, ...

The mother of a young boy undergoing cancer treatment has said the use of a virtual reality (VR) headset has helped to "take his fear away". Six-year-old Coby, from Oldham, was diagnosed with a rare ...

People in palliative care are dealing with serious, non-curable illness. Every day can be filled with severe physical, psychological and emotional pain. Palliative care staff work hard to help make ...