Therapy dog visits can improve physical and psychosocial factors in cancer patients. Both pediatric and adult cancer patients can benefit from complementary therapy dog visits. Cancer patients and the parents of children being treated for cancer usually consider therapy dog interventions to be treatment. Therapy dog benefits have been reported in patients undergoing diagnostic testing and during inpatient cancer care, chemotherapy, and end-of-life care.
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Marcus, D. A. (2012). Dog Therapy with Cancer Treatment. In Therapy Dogs in Cancer Care (pp. 57–75). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3378-1_4
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