Released on = November 15, 2006, 4:34 am

Press Release Author = From the desk of Dr. Magne, author of Cancer Free For Life.

Industry = Healthcare

Press Release Summary = New tests and research show that specifically targeted video
games can help children heal themselves of cancer.

Press Release Body = Our power to heal through the mind is so powerful, that a
company in California has launched a video game for cancer patients, advancing
serious games for health. HopeLab, funded by Pam Omidyar, wife of ebay co-founder
Pierre Omidyar, has created Re-Mission. The personal computer game leads players on
a series of twenty missions where they play a character named Roxxi, a 'nanobot' who
enters the bodies of patients and zaps cancer cells. The game teaches 'honest and
blunt' subjects to kids, such as how to deal with side effects of medication such as
constipation.
Pam Omidyar started the nonprofit company in 2001. She thought about combining the
effort to fight cancer in teens and children with their love for video games. She
pulled together biologists, oncologists and game developers to use the violent
action game to fit the subject since kids are literally fighting for their lives.
The HopeLab commissioned a $3.7 million study of 375 cancer patients in thirty-four
cities and three countries to get a scientific evaluation of the game. The study
showed that children who played the game were more likely to take their medicines
and keep up with chemotherapy. As a result, they had a much better survival rate.
If the tests prove true, it will be quite remarkable and further support the belief
that the human body has the ability to fight cancer on its own. The mind just needs
to figure out how. After all, we do not really understand the cases of spontaneous
healing in cancer. At one time, tumors are present, then later tests show that the
tumors have disappeared. Medical practitioners are quick to assert that there must
have been an error in diagnostic. But we know so little of the healing system that
spontaneous healing of cancer is not even largely studied. Whether the healing
occurred through the immune system's ability to win over cancer in a normal body,
the powers of visualization, meditation, or the patient's intense desire to live,
one fact remains is that cancer can be healed and is often healed.
There is an exhaustive study of spontaneous healing of cancer and the mechanisms
involved. Few books have been willing to so thoroughly investigate this ability of
the human body to heal itself, including of cancer. Read Cancer Free For Life in a
downloadable version


Web Site = http://cancer-free-for-life.com

Contact Details = Dr Laurence Magne
Publisher, Author
Cancer Free For Life
Email : lmagne@yahoo.com
Website : http://cancer-free-for-life.com