ACS Reach vs OWise - Breast Cancer Support Usage & Stats
If you have breast cancer, you may want to connect with someone who has “been there.” Through the American Cancer Society Reach To Recovery mobile app, you can match with a breast cancer survivor and have an online chat.
Our volunteers provide support to help you cope with treatment, side effects, talking with friends and family, working during treatment, and more. Volunteers do not provide medical advice. Reach To Recovery is a free program available to adults 18 and older who are living in the United States.
Reach To Recovery supports people wherever they are in their cancer journey.
• Facing a possible diagnosis of breast cancer
• Recently diagnosed with breast cancer
• Considering or have had a lumpectomy or mastectomy
• Considering breast reconstruction
• Have arm swelling (lymphedema) from treatment
• Undergoing or have completed treatment
Who can join as a volunteer?
Reach To Recovery volunteers are breast cancer survivors who have been trained by the American Cancer Society to provide peer-to-peer support to those facing breast cancer. Volunteers must complete required training before joining the program. Volunteers provide support, but they do not provide medical advice.
What information is required to join?
Peers and volunteers provide their name, email address, and state of residence to create an account. In addition, peers complete a section called “Find a Reach To Recovery Volunteer” with the diagnosis and treatment information that is most important to them. Volunteers create a profile with their own diagnosis and treatment information.
How do peers find a volunteer?
A peer’s preferences are compared to the volunteer profiles. For example, if a peer would like to chat with a volunteer who had a mastectomy, they can select that in their preferences. Peers can review the profiles of the volunteers who best match their preferences.
How do peers connect with volunteers?
After reviewing volunteer profiles, peers can send an online chat request to one or more volunteers. The volunteers can accept, decline, or propose a new time for the online chat. Volunteers typically respond within 24 hours, although it may occasionally take longer.
Who can see my information?
Program participants in other roles can see your profile information. For example:
If you are a peer, volunteers will be able to see the information you provided in the “Find a Reach To Recovery Volunteer” and “Tell Us About Yourself” sections.
If you are a volunteer, peers will be able to see the information you provided in the “Your Diagnosis and Treatment Experience” and “Tell Us About Yourself” sections.
Will other participants see my personal email address?
Your contact information is not visible to other Reach To Recovery peers or volunteers. All scheduling and online chats are done on the Reach To Recovery website. Although other participants will not send messages directly to your personal email, you will receive email notifications from the Reach To Recovery web site about new messages, chat requests, and reminders.
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OWise is the multi-award-winning health app that helps you to regain control of your life from the first day of a breast cancer diagnosis. OWise gives you personalized, safe, reliable and credible information as well as practical support and guidance, in one easy-to-view place.
Used by thousands of breast cancer patients before you, OWise is designed by health professionals and has demonstrated it can improve the communication with your healthcare providers. Using the OWise app you can easily keep track of more than 30 different side effects related to treatments such as hormone therapy, chemotherapy or immunotherapy, replacing the need for paper diaries. Moreover, through tracking, reviewing and sharing how you feel from day-to-day, your doctor can make timely and informed decisions to help you.
PERSONALIZED INSIGHTS
● Access a personalized report based on your breast cancer diagnosis.
● Track your breast cancer symptoms and side-effects to understand your well-being progress.
● Generate a personalized list of suggested questions to ask your doctor.
EVERYTHING IN ONE PLACE
● Easy-to-see overview of your treatment plan.
● View and keep track of your upcoming appointments.
● Record conversations with your doctor and store private photos in the lockable diary.
● Make notes related to your breast cancer in the app.
● Access all your information related to your breast cancer on your smartphone, tablet or computer – on the go or at home.
IMPROVED COMMUNICATION
● Share your tracked symptoms with your healthcare team or loved ones, so they can better understand how you are feeling.
● Understand your cancer diagnosis better with the impartial, credible and evidence-based content of the app, and have more informed conversations with your doctor.
WHO WE ARE
Created by medical professionals in the Netherlands, OWise was brought over to the UK in 2016 through the NHS Innovation Accelerator programme. The OWise breast cancer app is CE-marked, it is accredited by NHS Digital and is listed in the NHS Apps Library.
OWise has been developed by Px HealthCare Ltd., an R&D organization focused on improving the treatment and the clinical outcomes of cancer. By using OWise you support medical research aimed at helping other breast cancer patients in the future.
CLINICAL ASSURANCE
All the content within the app is based on the national guidelines for the treatment of breast cancer and is regularly reviewed by medical professionals in the field.
SAFETY
Px HealthCare takes the protection of privacy and user data very seriously. The Px for Life Foundation has been established to manage and protect user data. User data is applied only in a fully anonymised and aggregated format for medical research purposes, and is treated in accordance with the most recent privacy protection regulations as required by the General Data Protection Regulation’s (GDPR) on the protection of personal data (Regulation (EU) 2016/679).
Please read more about our privacy policy at www.owise.uk/privacy.
SOCIALS
Instagram @owisebreast
Facebook OWise Breast Cancer
Pinterest @owisebreastcancer
Twitter / X @owisebreast
CONTACT
Having issues with the app? Want to leave us a comment? Want to become one of our ambassadors?
Get in touch with us via email at info@owise.uk, or any of our social media accounts.
Please read more about the OWise breast cancer app, their research and their policy to protect your privacy on the website www.owise.uk.
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ACS Reach VS. 
OWise - Breast Cancer SupportDecember 23, 2024