Massage with or without aromatherapy for symptom relief in people with cancer

Shin, Ein Soon; Seo, Keehong; Lee, Sun Hee; Jang, Ji Eun; Jung, Yu Min; Kim, Min Ji; Yeon, Ji Yun

doi:10.1002/14651858.cd009873.pub3

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“…Our findings bolster previous research which suggests massage is helpful for cancer patients' anxiety and distress [18][19][20][21][22][23]. It also extends the body of knowledge of studies that compare pre-to post-massage anxiety scores [19,20,22,23].…”

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confidence: 82%

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Anxiety Improvement after Oncology Massage

Gentile¹,

Boselli²,

Flores³

et al. 2020

OBM ICM

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Literature suggests Oncology Massage (OM) reduces anxiety. However, research is limited in large, diverse, nonexperimentally manipulated outpatient samples of cancer patients. The purpose of this study was to 1) describe OM visit patterns, 2) describe anxiety response to OM, and 3) determine if OM resulted in significantly reduced anxiety at first visit, across all visits, and longitudinally over time controlling for demographic factors. From January 2015-June 2019, a cohesive, consecutive, retrospective sample evaluated their anxiety before and

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confidence: 82%

“…Reduced anxiety is frequently reported after OM [18]. After a single OM session, 59.9% of patients with at least moderate baseline anxiety reported reduced anxiety [19].…”

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confidence: 99%

Anxiety Improvement after Oncology Massage

Gentile¹,

Boselli²,

Flores³

et al. 2020

OBM ICM

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“…To the best of our knowledge, a limited number of studies have been done on the effect of peppermint on the sleep quality of cancer patients, which have shown its positive effect on improving the sleep quality [28,29]. e results of a systematic review performed in 2016 showed the low reliability of most studies in the field of aromatherapy in cancer patients, hence, suggesting further studies in this regard [30].…”

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confidence: 99%

Effects of Aromatherapy with Lavender and Peppermint Essential Oils on the Sleep Quality of Cancer Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Hamzeh

Safari‐Faramani

Khatony

2020

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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One of the problems of cancer patients is sleep disorder. Given the absence of studies on comparing the effect of inhalation aromatherapy with lavender and peppermint on the sleep quality of the cancer patients, this study was performed to compare the effect of inhalation aromatherapy with lavender and peppermint essential oils on the sleep quality of cancer patients. For this purpose, 120 patients were randomly allocated to three groups of lavender, peppermint, and control. The intervention groups received three drops of the essential oil for 7 days. In the control group, aromatic distilled water was used instead. Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Inventory (PSQI) was used. Before the intervention, no significant difference was observed between the mean PSQI scores of three groups, while the difference was statistically significant after the intervention. The mean PSQI scores were lower in lavender and peppermint groups than in the control group. Aromatherapy can improve the sleep quality of cancer patients. To confirm the findings, more studies should be done.

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“…Greater shoulder muscular strength was significantly associated with better functional wellbeing in breast cancer survivors with TC Qigong training [614]. Massage with or without aromatherapy have been suggested by a few studies in breast cancer to ameliorate anxiety and other symptom relief [615] and immunologic state [616] that needs further investigation. TENS was found valuable in lung cancer patient underwent standard posterolateral thoracotomy [617].…”

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Alternative Treatments for Cancer Prevention and Cure [Part 1]

Mohiuddin¹

2019

APCT

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Many lay people along with some so called "key opinion leaders" have a common slogan "There's no answer for cancer". Again, mistake delays proper treatment and make situation worse, more often. Compliance is crucial to obtain optimal health outcomes, such as cure or improvement in QoL. Patients may delay treatment or fail to seek care because of high out-of-pocket expenditures. Despite phenomenal development, conventional therapy falls short in cancer management. There are two major hurdles in anticancer drug development: dose-limiting toxic side effects that reduce either drug effectiveness or the QoL of patients and complicated drug development processes that are costly and time consuming. Cancer patients are increasingly seeking out alternative medicine and might be reluctant to disclose its use to their oncology treatment physicians. But there is limited available information on patterns of utilization and efficacy of alternative medicine for patients with cancer. As adjuvant therapy, many traditional medicines shown efficacy against brain, head and neck, skin, breast, liver, pancreas, kidney, bladder, prostate, colon and blood cancers. The literature reviews non-pharmacological interventions used against cancer, published trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses.

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Massage with or without aromatherapy for symptom relief in people with cancer

Cited by 68 publications

References 70 publications

Anxiety Improvement after Oncology Massage

Anxiety Improvement after Oncology Massage

Effects of Aromatherapy with Lavender and Peppermint Essential Oils on the Sleep Quality of Cancer Patients: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Alternative Treatments for Cancer Prevention and Cure [Part 1]

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