Virtual Reality Will Take Cancer Patients To A Trip For Better Hospital Experience

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A partnership has been formed between the University of Southern California (USC) Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Springbok Cares that looks to bring a Virtual Reality initiative for those patients in the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer program at USC. It will bring patients an interactive virtual reality experience in an attempt to ease discomfort and promote wellbeing.





Co-director of the initiative AYA@USC, David Freyer says, “The AYA@USC program aims to heal the whole person, not just cancer.  The Virtual Reality Patient Initiative will provide an important emotional benefit to our patients that cannot be achieved through medicine alone.”  The program will commence this fall as a trial and will run for three months.  While Springbok Cares will provide the VR equipment, program staff, and content library, USC Norris will provide clinical staff to approve and supervise the using of the material.

Previous research has demonstrated that well-being is improved and fewer negative symptoms are experienced in those that have access to VR experiences.  Steven-Charles Jaffe, chief operations officer of Springbok Entertainment, is the parent of a cancer survivor and he says, “Having lived with my daughter at a hospital during her battle with cancer, I know there is a void in good escapist entertainment for patients that this program will fulfill. VR’s technology ability to virtually transport a patient out of the confinement of a hospital bed or chemotherapy session is not only beneficial but critical for a positive patient experience.”





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