Navigation app development and description of app features
Breast Cancer, breast cancer
BREAST CANCER, SIDE EFFECT, BREAST CANCER, MEDICATION SIDE EFFECTS, ONCOLOGY, DISEASE CHARACTERISTIC
The app was developed by Outcomes4Me, a for-profit digital health company based in Boston, Massachusetts. The app involves patient engagement in multiple domains including breast cancer education, treatment guidelines, potential side effects and management, symptom tracking, medication tracking, clinical trial matching, and note taking. The app also provides a newsfeed about breast research in the media.Treatment and side effect information, symptom tracking and clinical trial matching provide evidence-based, personalized information for patients. Information about medication side effects and treatment options are adapted from Wolters Kluwer Health and NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) for Breast Cancer under an approved use agreement. Information about breast cancer and treatment is tailored to disease characteristics entered by patients, such as hormone receptor status, HER2 status, and stage.The app symptom tracking feature enables patients to enter symptom type, severity, and frequency using PRO-CTCAE criteria. Clinical trial matching is based on patient entered disease characteristics using an automated algorithm that presents a list of trials generated from clinicaltrials.gov.