Massage interventions and treatment-related side effects of breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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...In previous reviews, it has been reported that massage therapy improves side effects, such as nausea, fatigue, and anxiety, in patients with cancer.(32-37) However, evidence in support of massage for treating patients with cancer pain remains unclear or inconclusive....
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...Regarding these conflicting data, previous meta-analyses have reported no significant effects of massage therapy on cancer treatment-related side effects.(34,35) Furthermore, these analyses were limited to breast cancer patients....
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...Some reviews have suggested that massage therapy is not significantly effective for patients with cancer pain.(34,35) Regarding these conflicting data, previous meta-analyses have reported no significant effects of massage therapy on cancer treatment-related side effects....
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...Where no standard deviations were available, they were calculated from standard errors, confidence intervals or t values [13], or attempts were made to obtain the missing data from the trial authors by email....
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...Quality assessment and data extraction The methodological quality of the studies was assessed independently by two reviewers (Yuanqing Pan and Yuliang Wang) according to the criteria stated in The Cochrane Collaboration Handbook [13]....
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...Quality assessment and data extraction The methodological quality of the studies was assessed independently by two reviewers (Yuanqing Pan and Yuliang Wang) according to the criteria stated in The Cochrane Collaboration Handbook [13]....
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...The styles of massage used varied among all RCTs, and included arm/shoulder, posture correction, coordination exercises for muscular strength, exercises to prevent lymph edema, soft tissue massage of the surgical scar [4, 5, 27, 28, 35, 38, 39], core stability exercises plus massage-myofascial release [6, 7, 29], stroking, kneading, pressing, stretching the neck (Swedish techniques) [8, 31–34, 36], and self-initiated support plus foot reflexology, or plus scalp massage [30, 37]....
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...Two [8, 32] out of 18 RCTs did not report adequate random sequence generation, in four [7, 30, 37, 38] out of 18 RCTs blocks were concealed and sequences were stored in sealed, opaque, numbered envelopes, while eight RCTs adopted blinding, six RCTs [6, 27, 29, 30, 35, 37] reported blinding of assessors and two RCTs [27, 39] reported blinding of subjects....
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...Control groups were self-initiated support without any treatment in four RCTs [5, 30, 37, 38]; the others received usual health care or routine and standard healthcare [7, 28, 29, 31–34], health education classes [6, 27], ten 20-min visits [4], modified massage treatments without energy balancing features [36], multi-layered compression bandaging [35] and self-administered treatment [39]....
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