Narrative Medicine for Improving Well-Being in Patients With Gastrointestinal Cancers

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To assess the feasibility of implementing narrative medicine tools in serial workshops with patients with malignancy. II. To determine if narrative medicine interventions improve markers and expressions of well-being. DESCRIPTIVE OBJECTIVES: I. To estimate changes in markers and expressions of well-being after 3 sessions of narrative medicine intervention. II. To determine, through qualitative methods, if patients find benefit from the intervention regarding their well-being. III. To decide whether to expand these kinds of interventions to a larger study with control group. OUTLINE: Patients participate in narrative medicine sessions over 60 minutes once every 2 weeks (Q2W) for 3 sessions. After completion of study intervention, patients are followed up at 1 and 3 months.