U.S., Jan. 7 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07318519) titled 'Cognitive Behavioral Theory-assisted Virtual Reality for Chronic CANcer Pain (VR-CAN)' on June 25, 2025.
Brief Summary: While chronic cancer pain affecting as many as 75% of patients is typically addressed using pharmacologic interventions, experts and patients alike support maximizing any relevant non-pharmacologic interventions as well, such as cognitive behavioral therapy. Virtual reality, a novel technology that can temporarily immerse users in a calm, pleasant environment, has been increasingly shown to facilitate improvement in different acute and chronic pain syndromes by providing distraction from pain and lowering pain sensa...