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In the last few years, more and more research has been conducted in the specialized field of practicing massage therapy on patients suffering from cancer. Many old taboos on this subject, which basically discouraged the practice of massage therapy on people fighting this disease, have been revised if not broken.
While great care still must be taken when working on cancer patients, massage therapists, if properly trained, now have the opportunity to enhance the quality of life of their patients through massage.
In this special section, we have included articles from some of the leading experts in the field. Many of them have written books on this subject, and were kind enough to lend us their expertise.
To do justice to all of the great articles that we received, we were forced to divide this section into two parts. The first part appears in this issue. The second part will appear in our Winter 2001 issue, which will be published later this fall.
In the pages that follow, you will find the following articles: |