"More and more people are using alternative therapies in medicine. As ABC7's Dr. Dean Edell reports, one growing trend is using music therapy to help cancer patients.

Sound fills the room and touches Alexis like nothing else can, especially when she joins in.

Alexis Vanden Bos, breast cancer patient: "It's just like, 'wow, I can just have fun,' and just bam bam bam bam bam bam bam -- just really knock away at it."....abc7news.com: MOREFor more information on this program call Seattle Cancer Care Alliance Resource Center
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Even when most indicators suggest a low-risk form of neuroblastoma, loss of genetic material on chromosomes 1 and 11 predicts a poor outcome, researchers here reported.


The finding may allow clinicians to improve treatment for the disease, which afflicts about 650 children every year in the U.S., said John Maris, M.D., of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. "If we can correctly detect risk factors at diagnosis, we can tailor their treatment accordingly," he said.MORE- CME Teaching Brief - MedPage Today

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An experimental form of MRI may be able to spot quickly whether patients with brain cancer are responding to chemotherapy or radiation.MORE