‘COVID Symptom Tracker’ is now recruiting cancer patients and survivors

1 Apr 2020

Written by Rachel Jenkins, Future Science Group

Emerging technologies Epidemiology For patients News Patient perspective Prevention and screening

An updated version of the free app that helps researchers track the onset and progression of COVID-19 symptoms, the 'COVID Symptom Tracker', has been recently released. The update is in response to recommendations by Stand Up To Cancer (London, UK) and asks questions specifically aimed at cancer patients and survivors. Examples of questions include if they are living with cancer, what type of cancer, what treatment they are receiving, if they are in a clinical trial and where they are receiving treatment. “There is too much we don’t know about COVID-19 in the cancer community,” stated Sung Poblete (Stand...