One of the most comforting forms of support
you can offer a loved one with cancer
is the use of touch!
This inspiring and authoritative course provides detailed instruction by leading experts in oncology massage for safe and simple techniques anyone can learn and apply.
You too can gain
new confidence and satisfaction
in caring for your loved one!
Our National Cancer Institute-sponsored randomized controlled trial found that caregivers using Touch, Caring and Cancer for a loved one at home achieved reductions in symptoms comparable to those of professional oncology massage therapists.
Caregivers averaged 3 to 4 sessions per week of 18 minutes each, and their recipients reported the following effects from the sessions:
Pain – 34% reduction
Stress/anxiety – 44% reduction
Depression – 31% reduction
Nausea – 29% reduction
Fatigue – 32% reduction
Other symptoms – 42% reduction
Cancer survivors had reduced symptoms and side-effects of treatment and an improved quality of life. Caregivers increased their sense of satisfaction with their ability to help their loved one feel better, and their comfort and self-efficacy with touch and massage in caregiving. The couples also found increased quality in their relationship and communication.
User Friendly
• Stream on any device
• 78-minute program in 10 chapters
• Pause & review as desired
• On-screen summaries
• Learn simple techniques for comfort
• Learn important safety precautions
• Illustrated manual (PDF)
• FAQs with practical guidance
• Multilingual — 5 languages
• 30-day access period
• Free with organization promo code
What Users Say…
Touch shows Care.
Through Care flows Strength.
Strength leads to Healing
so that we can Touch the lives of others.
Thank you for Touching and Caring for us.
TOUCH, CARING & CANCER
is a wonderful video.
It showed me and my husband
how he could safely administer gentle massage.
Both our shared experience of touch
(him giving me the massage and me receiving)
and the enormous muscle tension/pain relief
I experienced from the massages
have been remarkable.
I am now 10 weeks post-surgery
and am done with chemo and radiation.
The gentle massages
my husband continues to provide
keep my morale positive
and have strengthened our relationship.
Husband says …
I have seen the video so many times,
I think I know it by heart now.
B. really still prefers the ‘loving touch’
on her extremities (head, face, feet, and hands).
I think it really helps her circulation.
They really relax her.
She usually takes a nap
of 30 – 45 minutes after a session.
We do sessions flat on her back
and she always falls asleep afterwards
with the dog curled up next to her.
This is really helping!
We both look forward to these sessions very much.
Thank you for teaching us these techniques.
Faculty
William Collinge, PhD, MPH is Associate Director of the Integrative Palliative Care Institute and directed the NCI-funded research on development and evaluation of the Touch, Caring and Cancer program.
He is a practitioner in behavioral medicine and Principal Investigator of other NIH-sponsored projects in complementary therapies and palliative care.
Janet Kahn, PhD, NCTMB is Research Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont, College of Medicine and a clinician at the University of Vermont Medical Center’s Comprehensive Pain Program.
She is a massage therapist and was appointed by President Obama to the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health.
Tracy Walton, MS, LMT leads professional trainings in oncology massage nationally.
She was Co-Investigator on a National Cancer Institute-sponsored study of caregiver training and the effects of massage in metastatic cancer patients at the Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, and is a practicing massage therapist.
David Rosenthal, MD is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, on the staff of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, and was first Director of its Zakim Center for Integrative Therapies.
He is also the CEO of Harvard University Health Services, and a former President of the American Cancer Society and of the Society for Integrative Oncology.
Susan Bauer-Wu, PhD, RN is President of Mind & Life Institute, and formerly a Professor of Nursing at the University of Virginia and Emory University in Atlanta.
Previously she was Director of The Cantor Center for Research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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