Society for Oncology Massage
Uncommon Interest, Training, Compassion

Interest in Oncology Massage Exploding

Oncology massage involves a limited direct relationship between therapist and client.  But, both are part of a much larger world than their own personal experience.

Googling "oncology|cancer massage" returns links to all internet pages which have the words oncology and massage or cancer and massage or oncology and cancer and massage.  At the end of 2010 there were approximately 15,300,000 links reaching back to the very beginnings of the internet.

The following chart breaks down those links by the year they first appeared.  The increase has averaged over 50% a year between 2004 and 2010.  That's an explosion of interest in massage (and massage resources) for cancer patients. 

Year	New Pages	Increase
2004	242,000	n/a
2005	538,000	222%
2006	812,000	51%
2007	1,520,000	87%
2008	2,120,000	39%
2009	2,600,000	22%
*2010	3,400,000	29%
1970 - 2010	15,300,000
*estimated

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Google Citations for "oncology|cancer+massage"

Check out the up-to-date list of links here.

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