Search results
People also ask
Does ringing the bell mean the end of cancer treatment?
Why do cancer patients ring a bell?
When did cancer bells start ringing?
Should cancer patients ring a 'Victory Bell'?
Oct 28, 2019 · Learn about the origin and meaning of ringing the bell to mark the end of cancer treatment at MD Anderson. Read stories of patients who celebrated, relieved and coped with this tradition.
- Jenny Montgomery
“Ringing the bell actually made the memory of treatment worse, and those memories grew even more pronounced as time passed.” He listed several possible reasons for the survey results. Sounding the bell can create a “flashbulb event” for cancer survivors, locking that moment into their brains.
Oct 24, 2019 · Researchers uncover dangers of ringing a bell to celebrate ‘victory’ over cancer. Ringing the victory bell is a common ritual for people who finish cancer treatment, but a new study suggests it could cause lingering distress rather than joy.
- The Importance of Ringing The Bell For Cancer Patients
- A Ritual Born from Tradition: The History of Ringing The Bell
- Rethinking The Bell After Seeing A Need For Change
- Ringing For Cancer Milestones, Ringing For Hope
- Ring The Bell Reminders For All
- Fine-Tuning The Bell Ringing
Upon her diagnosis of colorectal cancer that had metastasized to her liver in the spring of 2021, Cynthia Olds quickly began radiation and chemotherapy at the ACC at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP). Olds said that although her stage 4 cancer diagnosis was scary, she had hope. Since starting treatment, she has been a witness and...
Almost 30 years ago, MD Anderson began implementing a bell ringing ceremony at the end of a patient’s radiation therapytreatment, adopted from the Navy’s tradition of ringing the bell after completing a task that went well. Since every patient has an end point to radiation, this was an inclusive practice for all. With its success, other health syst...
In recent years, staff in the ACC at HUP started to recognize that some patients on the cancer units overhearing the bell-ringing ritual were left out of it, or even saddened by it. They felt conflicted. “I did feel bad for the patients who were not able to ring the bell. The bell is located near rooms with other patients getting treated, and somet...
In 2020, during the height of COVID-19, Zinck, Maggio, and other colleagues mapped out a new way to redefine what constitutes a bell ringing. They decided that patients could ring the bell at the end or beginning of their treatment cycle, they could ring it for any type of good news like an improved CT scan, or for when they weren’t feel good and n...
While the team has worked hard to share the change, they sometimes still find themselves reminding patients that the bell is for everyone. Maggio even created a new poem for patients to read instead of the traditional one used that only applied to those finishing treatment. Her poem was about hope, something every patient had in common. Signs in ev...
Today, the team is still fine-tuning who rings the bell and sharing the new, inclusive criteria at other ACC locations throughout the region, like at Penn Medicine Cherry Hill. Melanie McAnulty Zisa, RN, BSN, OCN,infusion nurse supervisor at Cherry Hill, has spearheaded the effort with Zinck to reimagine their unit for patients. They are planning t...
At hundreds of cancer centers throughout the U.S., ringing a bell at the conclusion of treatment has become a common celebratory event. Many patients report being motivated and encouraged when they hear that bell, even when they have weeks of treatment remaining. But new research has determined that these positive feelings are not universal.
May 7, 2019 · May 07, 2019. It’s become a common practice in oncology institutions across North America: A patient completes their prescribed course of treatment and they ring a bell. Usually it’s a large bell, like one that used to be rung in schools signaling the end of recess.
Aug 27, 2015 · BY Laura Nathan-Garner. Finishing cancer treatment can be a momentous occasion – one that calls for celebrating in ways both big and small. But there’s no right way to celebrate. We recently asked some of our bloggers how they celebrated. Below, they share what they did to ring in life after cancer treatment. Ringing the bell.
