Oral Presentation Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2019

Nutrition and eHealth (#14)

Marina Reeves 1
  1. The University of Queensland, Herston, QLD, Australia

Healthy diet and adequate nutrition play an important role in reducing risk of cancer, during cancer treatment and to improve survivorship. Nutrition services and interventions have traditionally been delivered face-to-face either one-on-one or group settings. Technological advancements however have allowed us to disrupt this traditional model of service delivery. Telehealth and eHealth provide a number of advantages: increasing reach and access to services, thus providing an opportunity to address the inequity often experienced by those living outside urban areas; they have the potential to increase dose and duration of ‘intervention’; and, they can be cost-effective. This presentation will summarise the evidence on the delivery of nutrition interventions via eHealth, including examples of such interventions in cancer survivors.