Effect of Healing Touch on the Experience of Women Undergoing Treatment for Breast Cancer

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: Healing Touch

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00533780

14064

95738

BRSADJ0003

Details and patient eligibility

About

To learn what effect, if any, Healing Touch (a gentle, non-invasive form of energy work that promotes relaxation and can help manage the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation), has on physical symptoms, mood, and qualify of life for women undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:- Patients undergoing treatment for breast cancer.

• Age 18 or over.
• Participants in Healing Partners Program. Exclusion Criteria:- Patients not under the care of a physician.
• Patients not able to come to regular healing touch sessions.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

51 participants in 1 patient group

MRI high resolution 3D diffusion

Experimental group

Description:

Total duration is about 8 minutes.

Treatment:

Procedure: Healing Touch