Virtual Reality in Health System: Beyond Entertainment. A Mini-Review on the Efficacy of VR During Cancer Treatment

• Published in: Journal of cellular physiology Vol. 231; no. 2; pp. 275 - 287
• Main Authors: Chirico, Andrea, Lucidi, Fabio, De Laurentiis, Michele, Milanese, Carla, Napoli, Alessandro, Giordano, Antonio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Antineoplastic Agents - adverse effects; Biosensors; Humans; Longitudinal studies; Neoplasms - physiopathology; Neoplasms - psychology; Neoplasms - therapy; Pain - prevention & control; Physiology; Stress, Physiological; Stress, Psychological - prevention & control; Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy - methods; Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy - trends

Virtual reality (VR), a computer‐generated virtual environment, has been increasingly used in the entertainment world becoming a very new evolving field, but VR technology has also found a variety of applications in the biomedical field. VR can offer to subjects a safe environment within which to ca...