26.02.2019:
PERSONALIZED CARE FOR CANCER PATIENTS • More people than ever are living with and beyond cancer. It is recognized that quality of life outcomes are as important to people as survival.
• Providing care that is tailored to a cancer patient’s needs can have a significant impact on the quality of life.
• Cancer and the consequences of treatment, may cause poor quality of life which include psychological difficulties, fatigue, pain, or bowel, bladder and sexual problems etc.
• Personalize cancer care includes a rapid access to support, advice and intervention, with fewer face to face appointments, whenever it is needed.
• Cancer is such a complex disease, it doesn’t always present itself in the same way. Patients with different types of cancer have different needs and require personalized care.
• Cancer patients with different gender, age, profession, marital status need tailored personalized care.
• Each cancer patient has a unique set of needs. While treatments become better matched and targeted against individual tumors, care and support system struggle to identify or predict the wider needs of the patient. Tailoring services and support is an important challenge to providing the high quality of care expected.
• To make personalized care a reality, we first need to understand the different types of need. Analyzing cancer data routinely reveals common themes amongst certain cancer types – which in turn influences the needs of those people affected.
• Each cancer patient develop different needs. By learning individual needs, digital intervention may offer, unanimously, support and advice on a personal basis.
• A personalized digital intervention for cancer patients is a fast, effective and attractive method to improve quality of life for issues that the contact oncologist – patient is limited.
