Learning the hard way! Setting up an RCT of aromatherapy massage for patients with advanced cancer

1 June 2003

journal article
clinical trial
Published by SAGE Publications in Palliative Medicine

Vol. 17 (4) , 300-307
https://doi.org/10.1191/0269216303pm769rr

Abstract

Aromatherapy massage is used in cancer palliative care to improve quality of life but there is little evidence for its effectiveness. A large pragmatic multicentre randomized controlled trial was s...

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