Telemonitoring of Geriatric Cancer Patients Using Handheld Devices

Universitätsmedizin Mannheim

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Device: Handheld Device (Smart Phone)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03196050

TeleGraPH

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cancer is becoming a chronic disease, with the requirement of a lifelong intake of cancer-controlling drugs. While young(er) patients may cope with this, geriatric cancer patients may require a more customized and tailored follow up.

Most elderly patients have multiple other diseases ("comorbidities") and, due to many other factors, may per se not tolerate or simply not follow anticancer therapies. This may not only impair quality of life (QoL), but on the long rung also the therapeutic outcome (survival).

Handheld devices provide a new reporting/communication tool for patients and health care providers. TeleGraPH will assess if these devices are a suitable communication modality in a cohort of geriatric cancer patients.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age > 60 years
• Karnofsky Performance Status ≥ 70
• histologically confirmed malignant tumor (cancer)

Exclusion criteria

• concurrent severe and/or uncontrolled concomitant medical conditions
• Patients unwilling or unable to comply with using a handheld device

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

Telemonitoring using a handheld device

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will be euqipped with either an app or a handheld device with a pre-installed app to communicate with the coordinating center.

Treatment:

Device: Handheld Device (Smart Phone)