Too slow recruitment and study data to be recorded not available.

This study evaluates the impact of essential oils massage on anxiety of patients who are suffering from cancer at a metastasis stage. Half of patients will be massaged first by essential oils and then by oil only. The other half will be massaged first by oil and then by essential oils.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Adult suffering from cancer at a metastatic stage
• Life expectancy > 15 days, assessed by investigator
• Hospitalized at the Chevrel unit from Centre Eugène Marquis, palliative unit care, for more than 15 days
• Regular anxiolytic treatment or imperative need to introduce anxiolytic treatment (assessed by investigator) within 48 hours following his hospitalization entry
• > 18 years

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient already recruited in a therapeutic trial
• Patient not covered by a social security system
• Pregnant or likely pregnant patient, breastfeeding patient
• Allergy to any component of essential oils mixture and vegetable oils : bitter orange petitgrain, fine lavender, ylang-ylang, macadamia
• Minors, people deprived of their liberty or protected people,
• Impaired cognitive functions making impossible to obtain informed consent

Not authorized by French law