Important new research that shows the benefit of keeping your weight down after treatment.

04:00 AM, 12 Dec 2009 by Toni Muirhead

Partners in Healing [www.partnersinhealing.net]

Purpose. Massage is one of the most effective forms of supportive care in cancer, but access to

professional practitioners is limited for most patients. This abstract presents findings from an NCIsponsored

randomized controlled trial (RCT) of family caregivers using simple techniques of touch and

massage as supportive care guided by a home-based multimedia instructional program. The project assessed

effects on (1) patient symptoms and side effects, (2) patient quality of life, and (3) caregiver attitudes

toward use of touch as a form of caregiving

01:26 PM, 08 Dec 2009 by Toni Muirhead

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