28/08/2025
🌟 578 patients recruited to the CANVAS study - CANcer SurVeillance And Support after treatment funded by Yorkshire Cancer Research🌟
After recruiting our first patient to CANVAS in June 2021 we have finally completed our recruitment and our last patient has completed the study! We recruited 578 patients in total and are so happy with the level of interest and participation.
The overall objective was to support people with a Breast or Colorectal cancer diagnosis in the follow-up phase of their care (post-treatment). We developed a tailored online self-reporting symptom/side effect questionnaire linked with self-management advice, depending on the level of severity of symptoms reported by the patient. For certain severe symptoms considered clinically significant, notifications were triggered, and clinicians were emailed details of the patient’s symptom reported. Patients were then contacted and/or seen in clinic.
The aim of the study was to see if this mode of online remote surveillance was a feasible and beneficial follow-up mode for these two patient groups, from a patient and clinician perspective.
Now that all participating patients have completed their time on study we will start our data analysis! Watch this space or keep an eye on our website https://pcor.org.uk/ for study findings in the near future.
