Cancer Care: Mobile Application For Cancer Care Adaptability

• Main Author: Ahmad Nazri, Nur E’zzati
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: IRC 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15936/1/Nur%20Ezzati_16013.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15936/

This project aims to help Cancer patient and their Care Givers to adapt with their new lifestyle after being diagnosed with cancer. Past research has found that majority of cancer patient and their care givers are having a difficult time to cope with cancer which causes them to accumulate stress and depression. Therefore, having to keep track with treatments, dealing with side effects, keep medical record history could be exhausting and essentially time -consuming; where in some cases, the waste of time can lead to a much worse condition of their illness. The goal of this project is to minimize effort and time consumption in keeping track of information and adapting with changes faced when diagnosed with cancer. Cancer Care Mobile Application is essential for anyone who wishes to overcome daily challenges to adapt with Cancer. It helps the user to learn more about cancer such as cancer stages, symptoms, survival rate, step by step to-do-list or check list for cancer patient to plan ahead, financial support, treatments schedule, doctor’s appointment and support group channels. Hence, it also may provide notifications or reminders to ease their daily lives to optimize and make use of this latest invention as a platform for Cancer Patient and their care givers to monitor progress. Results of the findings have an overall influence on the mobile application design itself, where future works will aim to further give improvement on the design and development of the mobile application.