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Music therapy

Term · Oncology and biomedicine · MLC-T-ONC-005597

A type of therapy that uses music to help improve a person’s overall health and well-being. It may include creating, singing, moving, listening, and/or relaxing to music. Music therapy may be used to help relieve stress, pain, anxiety, and depression caused by a disease, such as cancer, and its treatment. Music therapy is a type of complementary medicine.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ONC-005597
FieldOncology and biomedicine
ReferencesNCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-005597",
  "term": "Music therapy",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "A type of therapy that uses music to help improve a person’s overall health and well-being. It may include creating, singing, moving, listening, and/or relaxing to music. Music therapy may be used to help relieve stress, pain, anxiety, and depression caused by a disease, such as cancer, and its treatment. Music therapy is a type of complementary medicine.",
  "references": [
    "NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/music-therapy/"
}

Record 11,452 of 17,717 in Oncology and biomedicine terminology (MLC-0111). Request the full dataset.