Let's Fight Cancer

It’s primarily about getting closer with you family and friends in the fight against cancer. Cancer is a tough and relentless opponent and you’re stronger when you’re not alone, there will be hard days, there will be good days, if you do not have someone to share the process with, it simply becomes difficult.

Why now? Because so many around me have been affected by cancer, few have overcome the cancer but far too many good people have lost the battle. My personal experience is that it’s so difficult to keep up with the progress from the sideline, even with very close relatives.

Time also plays a role in it, when is the next treatment? when was the last scan? Why is there such a long time between treatments? It is difficult to keep up because we’re all just so busy in our everyday life, everyone is busy but for the patient time stands still.

There are so many things we talk about and there are so many things we don’t talk about, serious illnesses are difficult to be open about, then when the patient is finally ready to open up or need to talk, the relatives may not the have time. It's quite common, can I call you back a little later? Then the opportunity to have the deep conversation may have been missed. We're just so busy.

Therefore, for some time I have been thinking about doing this app where patients and their loved ones can keep in touch, share photos, documents and above all, the patient can share his inner feelings and thoughts. This app is based around a timeline, where the patient and the close relatives share their input and build the cancer treatment process.

The timeline works closely together with another very central element the app, interviews. The purpose of interviewing is to get the patient to share his thoughts, feelings, habits, life experience in general, by asking many questions, mostly standard and then some random unexpected, we get the patient to open up and share with the relatives. Interviews are also added to the timeline.

So how does it work? Patients creates a profile and invites their relatives into the app and gives them different rights like read, write and delete. With writing rights, relatives can add to and correct the timeline and thus share on behalf of the patient. The timeline can be used to share appointments, documents, photos, emotions, treatments, scans, interviews, etc.

The philosophy behind Let