Review Article

Massage Therapy for Fatigue Management in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review and Descriptive Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Table 1

A representative search strategy (PubMed).

IDSearch strategy

#1“massage”[MeSH Terms]
#2(((“massage”[Title/Abstract]) OR (“massage therapy”[Title/Abstract])) OR (“massage therapies”[Title/Abstract])) OR (“tuina”[Title/Abstract])
#3#1 OR #2
#4(“fatigue”[MeSH Terms]) OR (lassitude[MeSH Terms])
#5((((((“fatigue”[Title/Abstract]) OR (lassitude[Title/Abstract])) OR (tired[Title/Abstract])) OR (“weary”[Title/Abstract])) OR (“weariness”[Title/Abstract])) OR (exhaust[Title/Abstract])) OR (“lacklustre”[Title/Abstract])
#6#4 OR #5
#7breast neoplasms[MeSH Terms]
#8(((((((“breast neoplasms”[Title/Abstract]) OR (“breast neoplasm”[Title/Abstract])) OR (“breast tumors”[Title/Abstract])) OR (“breast tumor”[Title/Abstract])) OR (“breast cancer”[Title/Abstract])) OR (“breast carcinoma”[Title/Abstract])) OR (“mammary tumor”[Title/Abstract])) OR (“mammary cancers”[Title/Abstract])
#9#7 OR #8
#10#3 AND #6 AND #9