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By Lisa Fayed, About.com Guide to Cancer since 2005

Free Video Game Helps Kids Fight Cancer

Sunday September 30, 2007
A new PC video game is helping children with cancer understand cancer more thorughly and how treament works against it. Remission, a PC game produced by Cigna and HopeLab, allows the gamers to travel to parts of the body afflicted with types of cancer like Ewing's sarcoma and Hodgkins lymphoma and treat it with tools like Chemoblaster and Antibiotic Rocket.

The end result is children who are managing cancer and treatment more effectively. Studies show that children who play Remission have better rates in treatment management are simply understand their disease better.

Interested in recieiving a free copy of Remission? You can request a dvd or pc copy by visiting the Cigna website. You must first accept a consent for minors, and then you will be taken to the request form.

Comments

October 5, 2007 at 11:07 pm
(1) me says:

Treat Cancer with Flavonoids.

October 6, 2007 at 1:07 pm
(2) Rick says:

I found this article after catching a news item detailing this type of info this past week. My daughter was given an assignment in a Gaming Class in High School to create video games. I shared this info and the website w/ her to take to class and perhaps it can not only help kids with their classes and I wondered if it might even inspire visualization exercises that could help kids utilize their minds to affect recovery.

November 20, 2007 at 9:24 am
(3) Treat Cancer says:

Very interesting article.

December 6, 2008 at 11:20 am
(4) prince ofpe says:

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please i want some of ur game cds
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January 23, 2009 at 11:12 am
(5) capizzi says:

This game was given to our son to play during transplant and brought him unimaginable information besides the fun he had playing it. a great game thankyou to the produces and manufactures, Thank you for thinking of our children, stephanie

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