About This Touch
Duration: 20 minutes 3 seconds
Oncology Comfort & Treatment Readiness
The Foundation Oncology Touch File
Welcome
If you're reading this, you or someone you love is navigating an oncology journey.
The Oncology Comfort & Treatment Readiness Touch File was created to provide a quiet place to pause, breathe, and prepare—before appointments, during waiting periods, after treatment, or whenever you simply need a moment of rest.
While every cancer journey is unique, many experiences are shared. Waiting for appointments, preparing for treatment, recovering afterward, and finding moments of peace can all be part of the path.
This Touch File is designed to support relaxation, emotional calm, and restorative rest while you continue receiving care from your oncology team. It is the foundation Touch File within the QHS Oncology Collection and may be used alongside many of the cancer-specific Touch Files in this Pathway.
It is intended solely to support your overall wellness. It is not a treatment for cancer or a substitute for professional medical care.
Intended to Support
This Touch File is designed to support:
- Calm before oncology appointments
- Relaxation during scan, laboratory, biopsy, or consultation waiting periods
- Emotional readiness before treatment
- Recovery following treatment or medical appointments
- Evening relaxation and sleep preparation
- Rest during palliative care when approved by your healthcare team
- Emotional well-being throughout your oncology journey
Before You Begin
Continue following the care plan provided by your oncology team. This Touch File is designed to complement—not replace—your medical care.
Please continue following recommendations regarding:
- Medications
- Treatment schedules
- Chemotherapy
- Radiation therapy
- Immunotherapy
- Surgery
- Hydration
- Nutrition
- Wound care
- Follow-up appointments
- Palliative or hospice care, when appropriate
- Use this Touch File only when you can comfortably relax without interrupting your medical care.
- Do not use it during medical examinations, treatment instructions, consent discussions, procedures, or while receiving important guidance from your healthcare team.
- Keep the volume at a comfortable listening level.
- Use while comfortably seated or resting.
- Stop using the Touch File if it causes dizziness, nausea, headache, confusion, agitation, emotional distress, increased discomfort, or sleep disruption.
How to Use This Touch File
This Foundation Touch File introduces the QHS Oncology Collection and may be used by members across many different oncology pathways.
Recommended Use: One session whenever additional relaxation and emotional support would be helpful.
Helpful Times to Use:
- Before oncology appointments
- During scan or laboratory waiting periods
- Before treatment
- After returning home from treatment
- During quiet periods of rest
- Before sleep
Optional Additional Use: A second session may be used if well tolerated. Allow at least 6 hours between sessions.
Helpful Ways to Use This Touch File
Many members find this Touch File especially supportive:
- Before medical appointments
- While waiting for scans or test results
- The evening before treatment
- After returning home from treatment
- During periods of increased emotional stress
- Before bedtime as part of a calming evening routine
Adjust use according to your comfort and energy level. If you feel unusually fatigued, consider taking a rest day before resuming use.
Do not play this Touch File continuously or overnight.
Using Other QHS Touch Files
This Touch File serves as the foundation of the Oncology Collection.
Depending on your individual care journey, you may also use one or more cancer-specific Touch Files, such as:
- Brain & Neurologic Oncology
- Breast Cancer
- Cervical Cancer
- Colon & Colorectal Oncology
- Liver Oncology
- Lung Oncology
- Pancreatic Oncology
- Prostate Oncology
- Head & Neck Oncology
- Leukemia & Lymphoma
Use only one QHS Touch File at a time.
Allow at least 6 hours between different Touch Files unless otherwise directed within your QHS Pathway.
When to Contact Your Care Team
Stop using this Touch File and contact your oncology team immediately if you experience:
- Fever or signs of infection
- Difficulty breathing
- Chest pain
- Heavy bleeding
- Severe vomiting or diarrhea
- Severe or uncontrolled pain
- Sudden weakness
- New confusion
- New neurologic symptoms
- Rapidly worsening symptoms
- Any symptom your healthcare team has instructed you to report immediately
Suggested Wellness Journal
After each session, consider noting:
- Date and time
- When you used the Touch File
- Your comfort level before and after
- Your stress or anxiety level before and after
- Sleep quality following evening use
- Your overall sense of calm and well-being
- Any questions to discuss with your oncology team
Keeping a simple wellness journal may help you recognize patterns and reflect on your wellness journey over time.
Important Information
The QHS Oncology Comfort & Treatment Readiness Touch File is intended solely to support relaxation, emotional calm, appointment readiness, post-treatment recovery, sleep preparation, palliative comfort when authorized by your healthcare team, and general wellness alongside traditional medical care.
It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, prevent, reverse, slow, or manage cancer or any other medical condition.
Please continue following all recommendations provided by your oncology team and consult qualified healthcare professionals regarding treatment decisions, persistent symptoms, or any urgent medical concerns.