Virtual Reality

Janet Abrahm, MD, FACP, FAAHPM, FASCO

Mind over Matter: How Hypnosis and Virtual Reality Can Help Patients with Cancer

November 2025

View this resource in context: Pain and Symptom Management → Virtual Reality → Newsletters

Advanced Supportive Care – Hypnosis and Virtual Reality – A Video Presentation by Dr. Janet Abrahm

View this resource in context: Pain and Symptom Management → Integrative Therapies → Videos
Pain and Symptom Management → Virtual Reality → Videos
Martin JL, Saredakis D, Hutchinson AD, et al.

Virtual reality in palliative care: a systematic review

Healthcare 2022;10:1222.

View this resource in context: Pain and Symptom Management → Virtual Reality → Articles
Hao J, He Z, Li Y, et al.

Virtual reality-based supportive care interventions for patients with cancer: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

Support Care Cancer 2024:32:603. Note: Only abstract content is available.

View this resource in context: Pain and Symptom Management → Virtual Reality → Articles
Fereidooni M, Toni E, Toni E, et al.

Application of virtual reality for supportive care in cancer patients: a systematic review.

Support Care Cancer 2024:32:570. Note: Only abstract content is available.

View this resource in context: Pain and Symptom Management → Virtual Reality → Articles
oncology supportive care

About Dr. Abrahm

Janet Abrahm, MD is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is among the founders of Palliative Care in the United States and the author of four comprehensive books on supportive and palliative care for patients with cancer. Dr. Abrahm is a former practicing oncologist who created the Palliative Care Service at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute over 20 years’ ago. She is an award-winning clinician and educator and continues to practice palliative care at Dana Farber.

Learn More

oncology supportive care

Dr. Abrahm's Book

Dr. Abrahm is the author of four comprehensive editions 
on supportive and palliative care for patients with cancer, the first published in 2000 and the latest in 2022.

Her extensive work offers oncologists and other oncology and palliative care clinicians a place to turn to find the most up-to-date evidence-based practices, resources, and practical advice on how to care for patients across the full range of issues they will experience during their illness.

Learn More