Virtual reality opens patients’ eyes to their own cancerous tumors

Thomas Delong, PhD, remembers the first time he saw the walnut-sized tumor growing on the base of his tongue. “I sat down at a 2D computer screen and was shown the drawing where the (radiation) would go and all,” said Delong, an assistant professor at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. “But that picture was pretty useless for me because I couldn’t visualize it.”