{"id":34939,"date":"2020-05-27T10:00:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iarc.fr\/news-events\/few-losses-to-follow-up-in-a-sub-saharan-african-cancer-cohort-via-active-mhealth-follow-up-the-prospective-abc-do-breast-cancer-cohort\/"},"modified":"2021-12-01T16:43:12","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:43:12","slug":"few-losses-to-follow-up-in-a-sub-saharan-african-cancer-cohort-via-active-mhealth-follow-up-the-prospective-abc-do-breast-cancer-cohort","status":"publish","type":"news-events","link":"https:\/\/iarc.spherical.horse\/fr\/news-events\/few-losses-to-follow-up-in-a-sub-saharan-african-cancer-cohort-via-active-mhealth-follow-up-the-prospective-abc-do-breast-cancer-cohort\/","title":{"rendered":"Few losses to follow-up in a sub-Saharan African cancer cohort via active mHealth follow-up: the prospective ABC-DO breast cancer cohort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new article by researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and partners, as part of the African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes (ABC-DO) prospective breast cancer cohort study, reports the impact on losses to follow-up of active follow-up of patients using mobile-Health (mHealth) solutions in the form of mobile phones.<\/p>\r\n<p>In the ABC-DO cohort, women or their next of kin were contacted via mobile phone every 3 months for updates on the women\u2019s vital status. Almost 1500 women were regularly contacted in this manner, and only 71 were lost to follow-up after 3 years.<\/p>\r\n<p>Although the study was not a randomized controlled trial, in this cancer cohort with active mobile phone follow-up, losses to follow-up were much lower than in previous studies and enabled estimation of up-to-date and reliable cancer survival.<\/p>\r\n<p>Foerster M, Anele A, Adisa C, Galukande M, Parham G, Zietsman A, et al.<br \/>\r\nFew losses to follow-up in a sub-Saharan African cancer cohort via active mHealth follow-up: the prospective ABC-DO breast cancer cohort<br \/>\r\n<em>Am J Epidemiol<\/em>, Published online 8 May 2020;<br \/>\r\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/aje\/kwaa070<\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/aje\/kwaa070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the article<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":34938,"template":"","class_list":["post-34939","news-events","type-news-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cancer-site_taxonomy-breast-cancer-fr"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iarc.spherical.horse\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-events\/34939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iarc.spherical.horse\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iarc.spherical.horse\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-events"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iarc.spherical.horse\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iarc.spherical.horse\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}