No significant changes in the waiting control period
and significant decreases of anxiety both in the shortterm and long-term show that aromatherapy massage
holds promise as an effective therapy for breast cancer
patients. Further investigations with an increased sample
size and improved study design, including a control
group, are required to confirm our results. To do this, it
will be important to find a therapy suitable for the
control.
Outside psychologic therapies, anxiolytic drugs
and anti-depressants, conventional medicine offers no
effective interventions to reduce anxiety concerning
recurrence and/or metastasis. Our results suggest that
aromatherapy massage is a viable complementary therapy
that significantly reduces anxiety in breast cancer
patients.