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Why?

Research Suggests

  • Skilled touch is beneficial at nearly every stage of the cancer experience, during hospitalization, the pre- or post-operative period, in the outpatient clinic, during chemotherapy and radiation, recovery at home, remission, or cure and in the end stages of life.*
  • Recommended by:
    - American Cancer Society
    - Society for Integrative Oncology
    - LiveStrong
  • Benefits during treatment:
    - Reduces short-term pain, anxiety, fatigue, feelings of isolation
    - Enhances mood
    - Contributes to better rest
    - Improves perception of treatment
    - May decrease nausea
    - Reduces anxiety and depression
  • Benefits post treatment:
    - Restores a feeling of wholeness to the body
    - Increases  range of motion and suppleness to areas affected by surgery and radiation
    - Stress reduction/ restorative rest
    - Pain reduction**
  • Offered at many cancer centers:         
    - Moore's Cancer Center at UCSD
    - MD Anderson Cancer Center
    - Oregon Health & Science University
    - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    - Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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*Gayle MacDonald,  MS, LMT, Author of “Medicine Hands:     Massage for People Living with Cancer”
**Society for Oncology Massage

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