Cassileth, B., & Vickers, A.	2004	Evaluate the effect of massage therapy in pain, fatigue, stress/anxiety, nausea and depression.	Almost- experimental	EVA	1290 cancer patients	-Reduction of pain, fatigue, stress, anxiety, nausea and depression approximately 50% and in the same clinic improved 10% more than in the relocation and more durability.
Deng, G., & Cassileth, B.	2005	Evaluate the effect of massage therapy in the relief of symptoms	Prospective	EVA	230 cancer patients	-Decrease in the incidence of muscle fatigue, anxiety, depression, rescue analgesic consumption and improved circulatory and respiratory pattern.
Ferreira, A., & Lauretti, G.	2007	Evaluate the effects of therapeutic massage in the control of pain	Experimental	Pain (EAN) and quality of life (EORTC QLC-C30)	34 cancer patients	-Decrease in consumption of morphine
Wilkinson, S., Love, S., Wesrcombe, A., Gambles, M., Burgess, C., Cargill, A., et al.	2007	Assess the effectiveness of care with massage the management of anxiety and depression	Randomized	subscale of State Anxiety Inventory (SAI), Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D)	288 cancer patients	-There were no significant differences in improvement of anxiety and depression; -The anxiety improved self-report for patients who received massage therapy. This relationship did not exist for the self-report of depression.
Billhut, A., Bergbom, I., & Stenes-Victorin, E.	2007	Evaluate the effect of massage therapy in levels of nausea, anxiety and depression	Randomized	Eva for nausea and for the remaining variables used the HADS	39 women with breast cancer doing chemotherapy	-Significant Reduction of nausea in the experimental group; -There was no differences between anxiety and depression in both groups.
Kutner, S., Smith, M., Corbin, L., Kemphill, l., Benton, K., & Mellis, K.	2008	Evaluate the effectiveness of the massage to decrease pain and distress of symptoms and improve quality of life Evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic massage in improving the quality of life, pain, stress, suffering	Randomized	Memorial Pain Assessment Card; Brief Pain Inventory [BPI]; McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire; Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale	380 advanced cancer patients	-Immediate improvements in mood and in pain, with more relevance in the experimental group. -In the long term there was no statistical differences corroborate the improvement in quality of life, pain, stress, suffering and in decreasing the use of painkillers.
Currin, J.; Meister. E.	2008	Analyze the impact of massage therapy in pain, physical and emotional desnconforto and fatigue	Not randomized		251 cancer patients	-Decrease of pain, discomfort, emotional and physical fatigue.
Young, C.	2008		Experimental		28 terminal cancer	-Decreased pain and depression for the experimental group.