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The Meaning of Touch to Patients Undergoing Chemotherap y September 10.1188/15.ONF.517-526 Katherine E. Leonard, and Melanie A. Kalman Purpose/Objectives: To explore the experience of being touched in people diagnosed with cancer and undergoing IV chemotherapy. Research Approach: Qualitative, phenomenological. Setting: Central New York and northern Pennsylvania, both in the northeastern United States. Participants: 11 Caucasian, English-speaking adults. Methodologic Approach : Individual interviews used open-ended questions to explore the meaning of being touched to each participant. Meanings of significant statements, which pertained to the phenomenon under investigation, were formulated hermeneutically. Themes were derived from immersion in the data and extraction of similar and divergent concepts among all interviews, yielding a multidimensi...