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Contents : Tuning up : music- older than written history- as young as tomorrow -- Music as a science, medicine as an art -- Music therapy -- Jazz improvisation : (an example of music and medicine working together in harmony -- Coping with the initial diagnosis of cancer : the song writing workshop approach to the grieving process -- Lessons with the professor : a four step artistic approach to fighting cancer -- Lessons in music communication : the woodblock example, your sense of self, and the power of listening in your life with cancer Accuracy with smoothness -- In search of the missing chord -- Don?t cross the bar without me -- Where?s the bridge? keeping perspective during your journey with cancer -- Either you is or you ain?t : if you don?t get passionate about your cause, how can you expect anyone else to? -- In music, the rests are as important as the notes -- Keeping time -- The show must go on -- The live performance and the meaning of cancer.