To browse Academia. The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of massage on nausea, anxiety, and depression in patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy. This work was a single-center, prospective, randomized, controlled trial.
This study was conducted in an oncology clinic, in a hospital in southwestern Sweden. The patients were randomly assigned to a massage therapy group 20 minutes of massage on five occasions or a control group five minute visits.
All patients recorded nausea and anxiety on the Visual Analogue Scale before and after each intervention. They also completed the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Differences in anxiety and depression between the two treatment regimes could not be statistically demonstrated. This study complements previous studies on the effect of massage and supports the conclusion that massage reduces nausea in these patients.
A randomized controlled trial was conducted to investigate the efficacy of classical massage treatment in reducing breast cancer-related symptoms and in improving mood disturbances.
Women diagnosed with primary breast cancer were randomized into an intervention group and a control group. For a period of 5 weeks, the intervention group received biweekly min classical massages in the back and head-neck areas.
