Hi-tech health Smartphone app improves survival rates

Cancer patients who enter their symptoms into a smartphone app live more than five months longer than expected, a study suggests.

A trial at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, involving 766 patients with advanced breast or lung cancer, found that those who updated doctors about pain levels via the app allowed medics to intervene and keep treatment going. A study is under way with a view to incorporating the idea into the NHS.