Virtual reality to improve cancer patients' quality of life: a systematic review

Abstract

Quality of life (QoL) encompasses important elements of a patients emotional, social, and physical well being. Cancer patients face psychological issues such as stress, anxiety, and depression, as well as physiological side effects such as hair loss, pain, tiredness, nausea, and vomiting, as well as social issues such as social isolation, role, and function loss, and, eventually, this worsened their quality of life. These issues cause the deterioration in the QoL of cancer...