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ASCO 2026 | Implementing the SUPPORT+ symptom monitoring app in routine oncology care

Wing-Lok Chan, MBBS, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, discusses the implementation of the SUPPORT+ app in routine practice, which requires both clinical staff and patients to utilize the tool. Volunteers will be tasked with teaching patients how to use the app, while staff will inform frontline nurses to also use the app. The burden will additionally be minimal as patients only report symptoms weekly and nurses only need to respond to severe symptoms. This interview took place during the 2026 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Meeting in Chicago, IL.

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We are now going to implement this into our routine practice and we need our clinical staff to use the app. Secondly, we also need to ask the patients and caregivers to use the app as well. We need our volunteers to teach the patients on how to use the app and we also need our staff to tell the frontline nurses to use the app. And for the burden, actually it’s not much of a burden because the patients only report their symptoms weekly and the nurses only need to respond to those severe symptoms and not all the symptoms...

We are now going to implement this into our routine practice and we need our clinical staff to use the app. Secondly, we also need to ask the patients and caregivers to use the app as well. We need our volunteers to teach the patients on how to use the app and we also need our staff to tell the frontline nurses to use the app. And for the burden, actually it’s not much of a burden because the patients only report their symptoms weekly and the nurses only need to respond to those severe symptoms and not all the symptoms.

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