Video games can support cancer treatment.

Today video games have become very popular in life. A small study by McMaster University scientists showed that specially designed video games can promote positive behavior for young cancer patients to help Drug treatment is more effective.

Research published in the medical journal Pediatrics provides a great deal of scientific evidence for a new area of ​​treatment: Using video games and other entertainment technologies to influence patients.

According to Steve Cole, co-author of the study and also vice president of nonprofit research organization HopeLab: ' We have many ways to treat cancer for young people, but it requires them to really live with we. Newly developed and developed video games with relevant content can help patients feel no longer painful during the pursuit of treatment. '

A scene from the Re-Mission game.Photo: JoyStiq

HopeLab has developed a new game called Re-Mission to help people with adolescent cancer improve their behaviors and psychological factors when treating with drugs. In the Re-Mission game, the player plays a pilot who controls a spaceship traveling into a hypothetical cancer patient, smashing cancer cells, seeking to rebuild a muscle. healthier.

Volunteers in this study are divided into two groups. A group participated in the game, and the group did not participate. Scientists have found that people who join the game during the treatment process will have better chemotherapy and antibiotic injections than those who do not participate in the game. And moreover, patients will better understand the disease they are suffering from. Since then there will be a more active cooperation for treatment.