MyPatientPal: An App to Help Patients Manage Their Cancer Care



Status:Recruiting
Conditions:Cancer, Cancer
Therapuetic Areas:Oncology
Healthy:No
Age Range:18 - 75
Updated:1/6/2019
Start Date:October 1, 2018
End Date:December 2019
Contact:Felicity Harper, Ph.D.
Email:harperf@karmanos.org
Phone:(313) 576-8763

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MyPatientPal was developed in collaboration with both patient and oncologist stakeholders, is
designed to facilitate such patient self-management through the daily reporting of side
effects and medications.

MyPatientPal is a patient app that is designed to help patients track and manage treatment
side effects and medication adherence on a daily basis. Side effects (e.g., pain, fatigue,
diarrhea, nausea) can be physically and emotionally debilitating, and when uncontrolled, can
cause treatment complications, resulting in unscheduled care costs, patient out-of-pocket
costs, and delays or discontinuation of treatment. The app allows personalization of daily
entries such that patients can select the specific medications and dosage and side effects
(using items from the NCI Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events) that they and/or
their providers want to track. A charting feature provides an easy-to-read display of
patients' daily reports, summarizing the intensity and frequency of side effects and
medication use either by week or by month. These reports can also be printed out and shared
with providers.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Have a diagnosis of any solid tumor cancer

- Be starting treatment using an oral cancer therapeutic agent

- Be able to speak, read, and write English

- Willing and able to use their smartphone to use MyPatientPal

Exclusion Criteria:

- Patients with cognitive or perceptual disturbances
We found this trial at
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4100 John R
Detroit, Michigan 48201
800-527-6266
Principal Investigator: Felicity Harper, Ph.D.
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute Karmanos is based in southeast Michigan, in midtown Detroit, and...
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