Cancer treatment isn’t something you can do on your own. You need a physician’s help in order to survive, and that is a medical fact. However, some patients benefit from alternative cancer treatments that treat the body, mind and spirit.

Xoft, Inc., developer of Electronic Brachytherapy , a proprietary cancer treatment platform, announced today that the company has closed its Series E preferred stock financing, raising a total of $25 million in additional funding.

Research supports the idea that a few kind words from an oncologist can go a long way toward helping people with cancer understand their treatment, stick with it, cope better and maybe even have a better chance of recovery.

However, a study has found that doctors and patients aren’t communicating all that well about emotions.

Researchers recorded almost 400 conversations between oncologists and patients with advanced cancer. They listened for moments when patients expressed emotions like fear, anger or sadness, and for the doctors’ replies.

They team found that doctors used responses that encouraged patients to keep expressing their emotions only 22 percent of the time. Male doctors were worse at it than female ones: 48 percent of the men never used any of these responses, as opposed to 20 percent of the women.

This is a web page and benefit fund set up to help a cancer patient deal with the financial drain of chemotherapy. There are also some very interesting links included in the page about emerging cancer treatment technology and alternative fuel options. Contact information for the bank where the benefit fund is set up is also included on this page.

One of the most interesting applications of music therapy is in cancer treatment..