聲樂（唱歌）不只是一個興趣和藝術，透過聲樂，我們把人體當作一件樂器，從而發揮這件樂器應有的潛能。

 

根據過往我在醫院和癌症志願團體的教學經驗，透過適當的呼吸和發聲訓練，身患頑疾的癌症病人也能使病症得到舒緩（包括肺癌、晚期癌症、口腔癌、鼻咽癌、乳癌、淋巴癌、甲狀腺癌、腦癌、子宮癌和前列腺癌等等）。藉著聲樂，癌症患者能夠提升心肺功能，肺癌患者稱有助改善氣喘；鼻咽癌患者的纖維化肌肉和吞咽問題都得到改善，聲音不再沙啞。有些患者稱聲樂還改善了她們尿滲和大便問題。

 

整體而言，學習聲樂對增強他們自信和超越自我有很大幫助。外國更有研究指出唱歌能夠刺激腦神經細胞，幫助語言障礙患者、中風患者、柏金遜患者康復。有些患者不能說話，但能夠透過唱歌來表達自我。這足以證明唱歌本身不只是唱歌，是能夠幫助人超越自我的良方。

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Vocal Training (Singing) is more than art and hobby, it helps to explore the hidden capability of the human body as an unique instrument.

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According to my teaching experience in the hospital and the patients organisation, appropriate breathing and vocal technique training benefit cancer patients (including lung cancer, terminal cancer, oral cancer, nasal cancer, breast cancer, lymph cancer, thyroid cancer, brain cancer, uterus cancer and prostate cancer).

 

Vocal training helps improve the cardiorespiratory endurance. Lung cancer patients proclaim it soothing the symptom of laboured breathing and asthma. The nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients state that vocal training helps improve the problems caused by fibrosis muscles generated by electrotherapy and chemotherapy. It also improves the problems of dysphagia and hoarseness. Some patients witness the improvement of urinary extravasation and constipate.

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Essentially, vocal training encourages their self-confidence and help their limits be transcended.

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There are studies in many places showed that singing is a therapy that stimulates neurological cells to improve apraxia of speech, stroke and Parkinson's disease. The patients can administer and express themselves through singing even if they cannot speak.