Health Literacy and Capecitabine Adherence in a Remote Monitoring Pilot Trial for Breast Cancer: Post Hoc Exploratory Analysis
Samuel Hernandez, Jane Meisel, Gelareh Sadigh, Ilana Graetz, Mamdooh Alzyood, Elizabeth A Sakach, Elena Popa · 2026
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An oral cancer drug taken at home on a strict twice daily cycle is easy to miss or mistime, and low reading skill makes the risk worse. Samuel Hernandez and co-authors reexamined a small pilot trial in 2026 in which women with breast cancer used a smart pill bottle. One group also got messages after missed doses and weekly symptom checks, with alerts to the doctor.
Among women with lower health literacy, the monitored group took about eighty-eight percent of doses on schedule against sixty-six percent without monitoring. For stronger readers the gap was small. The authors caution that the group was only twenty-eight women. They say remote monitoring may help most where reading skills are weakest.
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| CREATOR | Samuel Hernandez, Jane Meisel, Gelareh Sadigh, Ilana Graetz, Mamdooh Alzyood, Elizabeth A Sakach, Elena Popa |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |