How Text Messaging Helps Prevent Prostrate Cancer
Summary
One exciting use of SMS to develop in recent years promises to help those diagnosed with or at risk of prostate cancer. While a large proportion of those diagnosed with prostate cancer survive, a diagnosis certainly requires a great deal of physical care and emotional support. It is a one-way text message subscription service with content designed by oncologists and oncology nurses working with PCF. And with SMS being used more and more to bolster health initiatives, usually with very positive results and responses, this service is a promising innovation. The screening compliance program remains a work in progress, and is intended to be tested ultimately for its effect on compliance in both making and keeping screening appointments, as well as its efficacy as a data collection tool as measured by how often participants share updates via text.