A case-control, mono-center, open-label, pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of therapeutic touch in preventing radiation dermatitis in women with breast cancer receiving adjuvant radiation therapy. Issue 4 (August 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Younus, Jawaid; Lock, Michael; Vujovic, Olga; Yu, Edward; Malec, Jitka; D'Souza, David; Stitt, Larry
• Is Part Of: Complementary therapies in medicine. Volume 23:Issue 4(2015)
• Page Start: 612
• Page End: 616
• Publication Date: 2015-08
• Subjects: Alternative medicine -- Periodicals; Complementary Therapies -- Periodicals; Médecines parallèles -- Périodiques; Thérapeutique -- Périodiques; Alternative medicine; Electronic journals; Periodicals; 615.5
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ctim.2014.11.003
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0965-2299

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="author-highlights" id="abs0005"> <title id="sect0005">Highlights</title> <sec> <p id="spar0005"> <list id="lis0005"> <list-item id="lsti0005"> <label></label> <p id="par0005">We examined the effect of therapeutic touch in prevention of radiation dermatitis.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0010"> <label></label> <p id="par0010">Every patient offered the study accepted it.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0015"> <label></label> <p id="par0015">Radiation dermatitis worst grade and time to develop it remained unchanged.</p> </list-item> <list-item id="lsti0020"> <label></label> <p id="par0020">Quality of life, fatigue and mood measurement were largely unaffected.</p> </list-item> </list> </p> </sec> </abstract>