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Twice a week Marks gets a massage.

A woman who was turned away from a massage at a spa because of her illness has backed calls to tackle the "misinformation" around treatments and their suitability for cancer patients.

She said that this started at college level as some spa therapists were trained that it was harmful to massage cancer patients.

In the past it was thought that having a massage when you have cancer may make the cancer cells travel to other parts of the body.

The caution was "understandable when spas were first open" but research has shown massage for patients can be "highly beneficial to their physical, psychological, and emotional health and wellbeing", they added.