Clinical trial · Observational
Interest of Touch-massage in Hospital Day Care
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
In spite of progresses made in the medical and nurse announcement (linked to the cancer plan), still a lot of patients fell lost, anxious, especially during the first venue at the hospital day care for their chemotherapy. A longer time is necessary to give them again explanation, to reassure and to listen to them. However, patients are not always in ability to hear due to their psychological status. Young women seem to be more in distress, this is linked to the fear of the disease, the change of their social status and the future of their children. It must be noted that there is an increase of complementary therapies including Touch-Massage. Studies showed its interest on quality of life, anxiety, pain and fatigue. The concept Touch-massage (TM) is defined as a benevolent concern that takes shape through the touch and the sequence of gesture on all or parts of the body. This allows to calm, to relax, to get back into shape, to reassure, to communicate or simply to provide well-being, enjoyable to receive and to practice. This treatment is already offered to the patients at the ICO, in priority while the first course of chemotherapy, but in an informal way. I has been noticed a better-being after the TM, and an increase of demand from the patients. This is why it would be interested to measure the evolution of quality of life of those patients having a chemotherapy for a breast cancer getting or not a TM.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breast Neoplasm Malignant Female | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women between 18 and 70 years old with an adjuvant breast cancer histologically characterized | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- label
- women with adjuvant breast cancer
- description
- Women between 18 and 70 years old with an adjuvant breast cancer histologically characterized
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Women between 18 and 70 years old with an adjuvant breast cancer histologically characterized
Primary outcomes (2)
- measure
- Evaluate the quality of life of patients with an adjuvant breast cancer treated at the ICO depending on the patient benefit or not from the TM during the chemotherapy in a hospital day care
- timeFrame
- 90 days
- description
- Quality of life assessed using QLQ-C30 (Quality of Life of Cancer Patients) questionnaire. It is a general 30-item questionnaire composed by 5 functional scales, 3 symptom scales, a global health status and 5 single items assessing additional symptoms. The scales measures range score from 0 to 100. A high scale score represents a higher response level. For example, a high score for a functional scale represents a healthy level of functioning; a high score for the global health status represents a high quality of life; a high score for the symptom scales represents a high level of symptomatology or problems
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- Female
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 70 Years
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Inclusion Criteria: * women between 18 and 70 years old * patient with histologically confirmed breast cancer * adjuvant situation * spoken language : french * patient who never had chemotherapy in the past Exclusion Criteria: * Patient unable to sit * Malformation of the back * Wound at the level of the zones to massage * Patient placed under the authority of a tutor * Pregnant patient
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