Helpful Mobile Apps

Although I am a self-confessed skeptic of most technology, a technological philistine if you will, I have come around to be a fan of mobile devices. I can't imagine being without my phone, and I don't miss the days of frantically looking for a pay phone and hoping that I had some change in my pocket. That was particularly challenging when my beeper went off, and I was driving somewhere, and it often was really hard to find a place to return the call. I came later to my iPad, but now I love that, too. I still like to read books in book form, but admit that the tablet is much easier at the gym and very much easier when traveling. No longer do I have to take up valuable suitcase space with half a dozen books for a long trip.

All of that is an introduction to this entry about apps that can be helpful in managing your cancer care. I am sure that there are lots of other available, but here are good ones from Cancer Net:

Version 3.1 of Cancer.Net Mobile includes several feature enhancements and improvements, including:

• Newly designed dashboard – easy access to medications, symptoms, questions, and cancer type information
• Scheduling features – add any symptom, medication, or question to your calendar to ask at your next appointment
• Quick links – your saved information is now just one tap away
• Data entry optimization – enter your information more quickly and seamlessly for easier tracking
• Enhanced symptom tracking – symptoms plotted by severity on an easy-to-read line graph
• Filtering capabilities – easily filter medications, questions, and symptoms by attribute

http://www.cancer.net/navigating-cancer-care/managing-your-care/mobile-applications

Also from CancerNet comes this list of other apps:

Other Mobile Applications

http://www.cancer.net/navigating-cancer-care/managing-your-care/mobile-applications/other-mobile-applications