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  • Music Therapy Effects after Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation (ASCT)
  • Negin Samadi Kharajouei,1,*
    1. Islamic Azad University Tabriz Branch


  • Introduction: Music Therapy is a clinical use of music to achieve individual goals such as reducing stress, improving their mood and expression. This is an evidence-based treatment created in the health community. Music therapy experience may include listening, singing, playing or making music. Music skills or talents are not required to be aware of the company. Music therapy may help you in psychological, emotional, physical, spiritual, cognitive and social. Also, in post-transplantation of stem cell transplantation involves pain and nausea, the use of challenging alternative methods.
  • Methods: Anderson KO, Giralt SA, Mendoza TR, et al. Symptom burden in patients undergoing autologous stem-cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2007; 39:759-766. Prieto JM, Atala J, Blanch J, et al. Patient-rated emotional and physical functioning among hematologic cancer patients during hospitalization for stem-cell transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant. 2005; 35:307-314. American Music Therapy Association. What is Music Therapy? http://www.musictherapy.org/about/musictherapy/ American Music Therapy Association. Music Therapy and Music-Based Interventions in the Treatment and Management of Pain): https://www.musictherapy.org/assets/1/7/MT_Pain_2010.pdf https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/8817-music-therapy
  • Results: Autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) is a standard treatment for patients with multiple myelomes and lymphoma. However, this treatment can be physically and psychologically challenged, with many side effects that can be painful, uncomfortable, and sometimes difficult. Most patients treated with ASCT have high dose chemotherapy. Most patients also experience pain from oral mucositis and esophagitis or inflammation of the esophagus. Extreme mucositis can cause oral ulcers, dysphagia and epigastric pain, so the use of drug and anti-inflammatory drugs that are associated with many side effects should be replaced by another useful method in the experimentation of music therapy in the recipient ASCT with myeloma and lymphoma, no significant difference was observed in the amount of pain measured by visual analog scale or in the POM scale. However, patients receiving music therapy significantly use fewer drugs than those who did not receive music therapy.
  • Conclusion: The experiments indicate that the use of music recorded in relieving symptoms as nausea and anxiety has been proven in patients undergoing chemotherapy, but there is a shortage of information about the effects of music therapy in patients with ASCT and need Visual research.
  • Keywords: Music therapy, Cellular therapy, Psychology, Stem Cell Transplantation, Molecular Biology