# OnCo record massage-therapy-cancer (technology). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/technologies/massage-therapy-cancer/>
  a schema:MedicalTherapy ;
  onco:kind "technology" ;
  schema:identifier "massage-therapy-cancer" ;
  schema:name "Massage therapy in cancer care"@en ;
  schema:description "Gentle massage by a trained oncology massage therapist gives short-term relief of pain, anxiety and mood in people with advanced cancer, shown in a randomised trial of 380 patients. It is safe when pressure is adapted around tumours, bone metastases, ports and low platelet counts."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/technologies/massage-therapy-cancer/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-10"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massage> ;
  schema:citation <https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-149-6-200809160-00003>, <https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.22.01357> ;
  onco:status "established" ;
  onco:tag "complementary", "supportive-care", "evidence:moderate" ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/supportive-care/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/integrative-oncology/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/pain-management/>, <https://onco.cc/technologies/palliative-care/> ;
  onco:terms <https://onco.cc/terms/quality-of-life/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-palliative/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-toxicity-qol/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-mao-j-clin-oncol/>, <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-kutner-ann-intern-med/> .