This book documents a music-therapy research project in the psycho-oncological care of both male and female cancer patients at the transition point between curative and palliative care in their illness. This book discusses the far-reaching implications at the institutional, conceptual, methodological and personal levels. In addition to the detailed description of this field of work, there is a focus on two particular aspects of the research results: first, gender-specific reception to the opportunity of having music-therapy and second, the relationship between the spoken word and making music in the therapy sessions, with the potential of each as an integrating or polarising healing factor.