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Massage: No Impact on Distress in Young Cancer Patients
Massage: No Impact on Distress in Young Cancer Patients
C Helwick
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2010 Mar 1
Elsevier Global Medical News
Massage: No Impact on Distress in Young Cancer Patients
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2010 Mar 1, C Helwick
NEW ORLEANS (EGMN) - When investigators conducted a randomized, multicenter trial to study the benefit of a massage-based intervention for hospitalized children who were undergoing stem cell transplant, they were disheartened to see no impact on distress in the young cancer patients or their parents."What we found was a surprise and a disappointment," principal investigator Sean Phipps, Ph.D., reported at the annual conference of the American Psychosocial Oncology Society. "Our intervention did not...