MentorApp for Cancer Patient's Remote Monitoring

With the growing number of cancer survivors, challenges to deal with comorbidities and impacted quality of life of cancer survivors by the disease and treatments also surge. Symptoms and Adverse Events are common and insufficiently monitored in real time / real life, which leads to increased symptom burden, treatment delays and unplanned hospital admissions. Remote monitoring apps have been shown to improve quality of life, symptom control and survival in published clinical trials, but no data with such interventions exists on the Portuguese population. A phase II randomized controlled trial to explore the feasibility of a mobile app for remote symptom monitoring in cancer patients will be done. Patients will be recruited in Portuguese Hospitals and will be invited to test the app for three months. Patient experience and satisfaction will be assessed via a weekly survey. Quality of life will be assessed at 1 and 3 months. The results of this pilot study will inform subsequent randomized clinical trials to test safety and efficacy of remote monitoring and lifestyle interventions to improve symptoms control and quality of life.