Effects of Hands-on-Healing vs. Touch for Fatigued Breast Cancer Survivors

Inclusion Criteria: * Premenopausal and postmenopausal women between the ages of 18 to 70 years. * Ability to give informed consent. * Breast cancer survivors who have undergone surgery, including lumpectomy and simple or total mastectomy, followed by chemotherapy or a combination of chemo- and radio-therapy. We have elected to study survivors instead of patients actively undergoing treatment to alleviate subject burden and risk during this protocol. * Stage I to III breast cancer survivors. * Breast cancer survivors who have finished their chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy at least one month prior to 60 months prior. * Breast cancer survivors with above-normative levels of fatigue. Exclusion Criteria: * Breast cancer patients who are currently receiving or who are scheduled to receive radiation or chemotherapy during the course of this intervention study. * Patients with current major depression, current or history of prior bipolar illness, currently on psychotropic medications. * Patients with other diseases that are known to induce fatigue (e.g., thyroid disorder; sleep disorders). * Patients with other inflammatory diseases that affect cytokine levels. * Patients with a history of other cancers, and stage IV breast cancer. * Patients undergoing current chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy. * Men with breast cancer. * Substance abuse/dependence. * Continued use of another biofield-based intervention (e.g., Reiki, Qi-Gong, Healing Touch, Therapeutic Touch, Johrei).