Background: The use of smartphone apps in cancer patients undergoing systemic treatment can promote the early detection of symptoms and therapy side effects and may be supported by machine learning (ML) for timely adaptation of therapies and reduction of adverse events and unplanned admissions.
Objective: We aimed to create an Early Warning System (EWS) to predict situations where supportive interventions become necessary to prevent unplanned visits. For this, dynamically collected standardized electronic patient reported outcome (ePRO) data were analyzed in context with the patient's individual journey.
Background: Trastuzumab has had a major impact on the treatment of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-positive breast cancer (BC). Anti-HER2 biosimilars such as Ogivri have demonstrated safety and clinical equivalence to trastuzumab (using Herceptin as the reference product) in clinical trials. To our knowledge, there has been no real-world report of the side effects and quality of life (QoL) in patients treated with biosimilars using electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Salivary duct carcinoma (SDC) is an aggressive and rare subtype of salivary gland carcinoma. Surgical excision and radiotherapy are standard of care for early cancer. Chemotherapies with taxanes and platinum show overall response rates between 39% and 50%.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The awareness and the clinical relevance of the potential interactions between standard and complementary medicine are increasing in medical oncology. Nonetheless, the research and experience of the efficacy, safety, and toxicity of herbal substances are poorly documented.
Case Presentation: Here, we report the case of a 68-year-old female patient who had been diagnosed with advanced renal cell cancer with metastasis in the liver and pancreas and had undergone surgical resection with hemi-hepatectomy and resection of metastasis in the pancreas in November 2021.