CU Cancer Center

Movie ‘distraction therapy’ improves children’s experience of radiation

Written by Healio | July 15, 2021

In the 2016 animated film “Moana,” the title character bravely battled a volcanic demon and saved her people.

At University of Colorado Cancer Center, this same computer-generated princess gave a 5-year-old child with cancer the courage to face 6 weeks of radiation treatment.