Mobile App for Symptoms Monitoring in Cancer Patients: a Pilot Study

This is a single cohort study on cancer patients to explore the feasibility of mobile app for symptom monitoring and inform future randomized clinical trials and implementation. Patients will be screened at oncology visits for inclusion criteria and will be invited to use a mobile app to monitor and track treatment side-effects. We will recruit a minimum of 10 cancer patients under systemic anti-neoplasic treatment being followed in medical oncology departments in portuguese hospitals. between February 1st and March 30th. Participants will be invited to register their treatment side effects and symptoms on a health app designed for this purpose. The Mentora Health App include a PRO-CTCAE™ based tool (a patient-reported outcome measurement system developed by the National Cancer Institute), version 1.1, that includes 80 symptoms (attachment 1) and has been translated and validated to Portuguese (Portugal) by the authoring entity. These symptoms are graded on a five-point scale from 0 (not present) to 4 (disabling) based on clinical criteria.