The rate of cancer diagnoses is high – everyone knows someone touched by cancer. The impact of cancer on the patient and the family can be great in many different ways. Music therapy is a non-pharmacological approach to care that can help with pain perception, support coping strategies, emotional, social, and psychological well-being, and if applicable, spiritual concerns and end of life. Treatment is individualized based on the person’s needs. Music therapy interventions might involve music listening, playing instruments, improvisation, singing, lyric analysis, or songwriting. Patients do not have to know how to play an instrument to receive music therapy.