Fighting Cancer with Video Games
Can you really fight cancer with a video game?? HopeLab thinks so! They created a PC-based video game, Re-Mission, to help young patients fight their terrible disease.
In this game, an epic battle rages as cancerous invaders try to take over the bodies of young patients. Your job is to control a nanobot named Roxxi through the body while she destroys cancer cells, battles bacterial infections, and manages realistic, life- threatening side effects associated with the disease.
The idea is that a video game will play a positive role in helping kids fight their disease by give them a feeling of control as they blast away at the cancer cells.
The video game was helpful in 80% of patients! Re-Mission players maintained higher blood levels of chemotherapy and showed higher rates of antibiotic utilization. The overall self-efficacy score of the patients also increased significantly,
Fighting cancer, nanobot, video games
Katie @ June 25, 2007