App-based symptom tracker aims to boost quality of life for liver cancer patients
NCT ID NCT06938945
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial tests whether a smartphone app that tracks symptoms can improve quality of life for 500 liver cancer patients receiving immunotherapy. Patients in the intervention group report symptoms weekly via the app, which gives personalized advice and alerts doctors if scores are concerning. The control group receives usual care. The goal is to see if digital monitoring helps patients manage side effects and feel better overall.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- digital symptom monitoring app (behavioral intervention)
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that a simple app helps liver cancer patients manage symptoms better and improves their quality of life during treatment.
- What could go wrong
- This is a behavioral intervention, not a drug, so it won't treat the cancer itself. The benefit depends on patients and doctors acting on the alerts, which may not always happen.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 500 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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May 2025
- Expected to finish
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Sep 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 75 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
The inclusion criteria for the participants are: (1) aged 18 to 75 years, (2) clinically diagnosed as HCC, (3) treated with immunotherapy, (4) able and willing to use smartphones or tablets to complete the follow-up process according to protocol and (5) can understand Mandarin Chinese. The exclusion criteria are: (1) cognitive deficits that would preclude recognizing of their own symptoms and feelings, (2) unable to understand the research content and/or questionnaires, (3) is going to take or having taken surgical resection or liver transplant, (4) currently participating in other clinical trials that may affect this study, or (5) having other malignant tumours.
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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China Center for Health Development Studies, Peking University
RECRUITINGHaidian, Beijing Municipality, 100191, China
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