Cancer Patients May Benefit from Reporting Symptoms Online in Real Time

Steve Hards

“Because cancer therapies can be highly toxic, early detection of symptoms and timely treatment is vital. What is exciting to us about online self-reporting is that patients can alert clinicians to crucial symptoms in real time.” Ethan Basch, MD, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York. The research team developed a Web-based system that patients in the study could access using computers in waiting-room kiosks and at home to communicate their symptoms directly to clinicians. Story on system that uses the internet.