If you are diagnosed with MBC, you may live with the disease for years. The stress of treatment side effects, cancer symptoms, uncertainty, and fear can have a negative effect on your quality of life. People with long-term diseases like MBC sometimes find that creativity can help them cope with this day-to-day stress.
Read below for different ways to tap into your creativity to improve your quality of life as well as to find clinical trials that are studying ways to improve quality of life.
Art Therapy
- Very Well Health: Art therapy is a type of psychotherapy that helps people cope with serious diseases such as MBC
- Living Beyond Breast Cancer: Art therapy allows you to express your emotions and communicate with others
- Breastcancer.org (podcast): This podcast explains how art therapy can help you heal emotionally and spiritually
- Seven Days: MBC patient Samantha Handler talks about how art helps her live with cancer
Music, Sewing, Creative Writing, and Dance
- Our MBC Life: This blog shows how one person living with MBC uses poetry writing as a way to express her feelings
- Stanford Medicine: Participating in music, art, quilt-making, and poetry can create a sense of self-worth during cancer treatment
- SHARE Cancer Support: Register here for creative writing classes on Zoom that will take place February 4 and 18 and March 4, 2025
- Living Beyond Breast Cancer: Expressive writing and journaling can help you cope with cancer
- Virginia Commonwealth University: Dance therapy can improve body image and self-esteem
MBC Clinical Trials
- Metastatic Trial Search: Trials for Managing Side Effects
Last Modified on February 3, 2025