Oncolytic viral therapy for cancer therapy

Recently, tumor-selective replicating viruses offer appealing advantages over conventional cancer therapy and are a promising new approach for the human cancer therapy. The development of oncolytic viral therapeutics is based on various strategies that each provides a different foundation for tumor-selective targeting and replication. Results from clinical trials of oncolytic viral therapy demonstrate the safety and feasibility of a new approach for cancer. Strategies to overcome various obstacles and challenges to this therapy are currently being searched. In the future, the development of oncolytic viral therapies will extend the range of tumors that can be treated using this novel treatment modality. In this paper, I would like to summarize the advances in the field including the findings from the viral treatment that we are currently utilizing.     

Body-image therapy

Body image is a complex interplay of factors resulting in a sense of the body perceived by that individual. In eating-disorder clients, there is a distortion between their perceived image of their body and its actuality. This is combined with a sense of dissatisfaction and alienation of mind and body. Cognitive, right-brain, and kinesthetic strategies are described that seek to decrease distortion and dissatisfaction and facilitates individuation-separation and a reintegration of the self. These strategies are both therapeutic and evaluative. Cultural expectations of women have had a profound impact on the proliferation of eating disorders, and they account for the fact that body distortion is found in both normal and eating-disordered women.     

Movement therapy

Nursing's holistic approach to patient care requires that nurses use interventions that promote holism. Movement therapy is one of a number of possible holistic interventions neuroscience nurses can use. This intervention helps persons to become aware of their bodies and to use the body for expressing inner feelings. Two techniques, creative dance and afspaending, are described along with suggestions for their use with neuroscience populations.