# Massage Therapy in Treating the Symptoms of Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Cancer

> **NCT00253708** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center** · enrollment: 39 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Cancer

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** management of therapy complications
- **PROCEDURE:** massage therapy
- **PROCEDURE:** pain therapy
- **PROCEDURE:** psychosocial assessment and care
- **PROCEDURE:** quality-of-life assessment

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00253708
- **Lead sponsor:** Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2004-12-01
- **Primary completion:** 2013-01-01
- **Final completion:** 2013-01-01
- **Target enrollment:** 39 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2017-08-07

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00253708

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00253708, "Massage Therapy in Treating the Symptoms of Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Cancer". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-07-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00253708. Licensed CC0.

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