Anxiolytic effect of aromatherapy massage in patients with breast cancer

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 123-128

  Imanishi, Jiro ^a   Kuriyama, Hiroko ^a   Shigemori, Ichiro ^a   Watanabe, Satoko ^a   Aihara, Yuka ^b   Kita, Masakazu ^a   Sawai, Kiyoshi ^a   Nakajima, Hiroo ^a   Yoshida, Noriko ^a   Kunisawa, Masahiro ^a   Kawase, Masanori ^c   Fukui, Kenji ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYOTO NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Aromatherapy massage; Breast cancer

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CXCR3; ESSENTIAL OIL;

ADULT; ANXIETY; AROMATHERAPY; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MASSAGE; MOOD; OPEN STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

EID: 60749083255     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ecam/nem073     Document Type: Article

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