Music lessons from home might boost brain power in cancer survivors

NCT ID NCT07052916

Recruiting now Symptom relief Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time

Summary

This pilot study is testing whether music therapy delivered over video calls is a practical way to help blood cancer survivors who have trouble with memory, attention, and thinking. Researchers will enroll 60 adults who have had lymphoma, leukemia, or myeloma. Participants will either receive music therapy or music education sessions once a week for 12 weeks. The main goal is to see if people can stick with the program, but the study will also look at whether it improves thinking, mood, and fatigue.

What this could mean

Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only — not medical advice or a prediction.

Active substance: music therapy
What this could lead to: If this works, it could point toward a practical, home-based treatment to help blood cancer survivors with memory, attention, and thinking problems.
What could go wrong: This is a very early pilot study with only 60 people. It is testing if the approach is practical, not yet if it works. The results may not apply to everyone.

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

hematopoietic and lymphoid system neoplasm leukemia lymphoma plasma cell myeloma plasma cell neoplasm

As listed by the trial registrant

The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.

BLOOD CANCER LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA MYELOMA

Contacts and locations

Locations

Memorial Sloan Kettering Basking Ridge (All protocol activities)
RECRUITING

Basking Ridge, New Jersey, 07920, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Bergen (All protocol activities)
RECRUITING

Montvale, New Jersey, 07645, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (All protocol activities)
RECRUITING

New York, New York, 10065, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Suffolk - Commack (All protocol activities)
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Commack, New York, 11725, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth (All protocol activities)
RECRUITING

Middletown, New Jersey, 07748, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Nassau (All protocol activities)
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Uniondale, New York, 11553, United States
Memorial Sloan Kettering Westchester (All protocol activities)
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Harrison, New York, 10604, United States

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