Remote, proactive, telephone based management of toxicity in outpatients during adjuvant or neoadjuvant chemotherapy for early stage breast cancer: pragmatic, cluster randomised trial

CONCLUSIONS: Proactive, telephone based management of toxicities during chemotherapy did not result in fewer visits to the emergency department or hospital admissions. With the rapid rise in remote care because of the covid-19 pandemic, identifying scalable strategies for remote management of patients during cancer treatment is particularly relevant.TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02485678.PMID:34880055 | DOI:10.1136/bmj-2021-066588

Source: Cancer Control - December 9, 2021 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Monika K Krzyzanowska Jim A Julian Chu-Shu Gu Melanie Powis Qing Li Katherine Enright Doris Howell Craig C Earle Sonal Gandhi Sara Rask Christine Brezden-Masley Susan Dent Leena Hajra Orit Freeman Silvana Spadafora Caroline Hamm Nadia Califaretti Maureen Source Type: research