Effect and Orientation of Music Therapy on Malignant Tumor

Music therapy is an emerging profession. Because of its role in emotional management and symptom remission, it is gradually drawn more attention by scholars. Cancer patients often suffer from the double whammy of disease itself and emotional problems, and they are in poor quality of life. In this paper, we review the role and possible mechanisms of music therapy in the control of cancer patients' emotion, pain and other symptoms, and discuss its orientation and development in cancer therapy.