Mobile health (mHealth) interventions in prostate cancer survivorship: a scoping review

Conclusions and implications for cancer survivorsThe improving survival rates from CaP suggest that men are now living longer with unfavorable treatment side effects such as reduced sexual functioning, pain, and fatigue. Hence, mHealth represents new hope in men ’s illness trajectory. However, current application in patients’ care pathways remains poor, particularly in the active phase of CaP management. Efforts must be accelerated to explore individual and healthcare-level drivers of mHealth use. The feasibility and descriptive nature of current studie s point to a lack of attention to actual implementation and scale-up issues in research considering mHealth application in CaP, hence accounting partly for the gap in research/practice.
Source: Journal of Cancer Survivorship - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: research