Virtual Reality Meets Radiation: A New Era in Patient Coaching

Virtual Reality Meets Radiation: A New Era in Patient Coaching

Virtual Reality Meets Radiation: A New Era in Patient Coaching

Kathleene Dower is a Radiation Therapist and 2025 Clinical Fellow with Breast Cancer Trials. Her project is about piloting virtual reality (VR) coaching and education for deep inspiration breath hold, a breathing technique used during radiation therapy to move the heart away from radiation and protect it from damage.

This study will explore whether VR coaching and education can help patients learn this technique more effectively.

In this episode, we sit down with Kathleene to discuss:

  • An overview of Deep Inspiration Breath Hold (DIBH), and how to effectively do this.
  • How the VR coaching program works.
  • The benefits of using BR compared to traditional coaching methods for DIBH.
  • Next steps after this pilot study.

Tune in for a deep dive into this important research.

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Guest: Kathleene Dower from Lismore Base Hospital

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