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A Mobile Breast Cancer Survivorship Care App: Pilot Study

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Baseman, Janet, Revere, Debra, Baldwin, Laura-Mae·2017·JMIR Cancer
DOI 10.2196/cancer.8192PMC PMC5635232
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BACKGROUND: Cancer survivors living in rural areas experience unique challenges due to additional burdens, such as travel and limited access to specialists. Rural survivors of breast cancer have reported poorer outcomes, poorer mental health and physical functioning, and lower-than-average quality of life compared to urban survivors. OBJECTIVE: To explore the feasibility and acceptability of developing a mobile health survivorship care app to facilitate care coordination; support medical, psychosocial, and practical needs; and improve survivors' long-term health outcomes. METHODS: An interactive prototype app, SmartSurvivor, was developed that included recommended survivorship care plan components. The prototype's feasibility and acceptability were tested by a sample of breast cancer survivors (n=6), primary care providers (n=4), and an oncologist (n=1). RESULTS: Overall, both survivors and providers felt that SmartSurvivor was a potentially valuable tool to support long-term survivorship care plan objectives. Portability, accessibility, and having one place for all contact, treatment, symptom tracking, and medication summaries was highly valued. CONCLUSIONS: Our pilot study indicates that SmartSurvivor is a feasible and acceptable approach to meeting survivorship care objectives and the needs of both breast cancer survivors and their health care providers. Exploration of mobile health options for supporting survivorship care plan needs is a promising area of research.

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  • SmartSurvivor by Baseman et al [39] explored mHealth options for survivorship care, explicitly embedding patient perspectives into the functionality and usability of the tool.

    “Similarly, SmartSurvivor by Baseman et al [39] explored mHealth options for survivorship care, explicitly embedding patient perspectives into the functionality and usability of the tool.”

    From User-Centered Design for Digital Patient-Navigation Tools in Oncology: Scoping Review (2026) · cites this paper as [39]

    The Methods (Testing; page unavailable) say breast cancer survivors tested SmartSurvivor and commented on its features, navigation, and ease of use. The Discussion (Principal Findings; page unavailable) identifies changes for further development based on the pilot. This supports the claim that the study brought patient perspectives to bear on functionality and usability, but not that those perspectives had already been embedded in the tool’s implemented design. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
Baseman, J., Revere, D., & Baldwin, L.-M.
Affiliations
University of Washington (US)
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Baseman, Janet
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Venue
JMIR Cancer
Publisher
JMIR Publications Inc.
Published
2017-09-26
Volume
3
Issue
2
Pages
e14
ISSN
2369-1999 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.2196/cancer.8192
PMC
PMC5635232
OpenAlex
W2758359881
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39
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Language
en
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Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Mobile Health and mHealth Applications
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Digital Mental Health Interventions
Keywords
breast cancer survivorship care, mobile health apps, care coordination, survivorship care plans, feasibility and acceptability, primary care providers, oncologists, symptom monitoring, psychosocial support

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