Time Burden of Cancer Care

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Our goal is to learn about the time requirements of cancer care and

identify who is at greatest risk of negative effects and how we can mitigate these effects.

previous research

Current Research

Time toxicity of cancer: the time demands of cancer-related ​activities and their impact on well-being and quality of life

The time demands of cancer and its treatments are significant and take away from other activities important to individuals with cancer. Using automated sensor data, we will partner with the University of Alabama-Birmingham to measure objective cancer-related time use over a 28-day period, augmented by self-reported specific cancer activities, well-being, and quality of life to develop a scoring system of cancer-related time burden among adults with advanced ovarian or metastatic breast cancer.


We expect this project will have a positive impact by creating measures of cancer-related objective time use and subjective burden, enabling us to develop and measure the efficacy of future interventions to reduce cancer time demands.


Status: We are currently recruiting participants and collecting data.


Dr. Vogel and Dr. Julian Wolfson obtained R01 funding ​from the NIH National Cancer Institute for this work.

Current Research

App-Assisted Day Reconstruction to Reduce Treatment Burden ​and Logistic Toxicity in Cancer Patients

Cancer treatments often create numerous logistic challenges in prioritizing and managing treatment and ​everyday life priorities and how these challenges affect their everyday lives and well-being.


We are partnering with Daynamica Inc. to build and test an app for cancer patients to continuously monitor logistic ​toxicity in their daily lives. We hope to use this data to help Oncology clinical practices to reduce logistic toxicity.


Status: We are currently recruiting participants and collecting data.


Daynamica, Inc. received grant funding from the National ​Cancer Institute to support this research, partnering with ​the University of Minnesota, with Dr. Vogel as the site PI.


Related Publications

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  • Dona AC, Jewett PI, Hwee S, Brown K, Solomon M, Gupta A, Teoh D, Yang G, Wolfson J, Fan Y, Blaes AH, Vogel RI. Logistic burdens of cancer care: A ​qualitative study. PLoS One. 2024 Apr 4;19(4):e0300852. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0300852. PMID: 38573993; PMCID: PMC10994350.


  • Gupta A, Chant ED, Mohile S, Vogel RI, Parsons HM, Blaes AH, Booth CM, Rocque GB, Dusetzina SB, Ganguli I. Health Care Contact Days Among ​Older Cancer Survivors. JCO Oncol Pract. 2024 Jul;20(7):943-952. doi: 10.1200/OP.23.00590. Epub 2024 Mar 7. PMID: 38452315; PMCID: PMC11268556.



  • Patel VR, Ramesh V, Tsai AK, Sedhom R, Westanmo AD, Blaes AH, Vogel RI, Parsons HM, Hanna TP, Ganguli I, Dusetzina SB, Rocque GB, Booth CM, ​Gupta A. Health Care Contact Days Experienced by Decedents With Advanced GI Cancer. JCO Oncol Pract. 2023 Nov;19(11):1031-1038. doi: ​10.1200/OP.23.00232. Epub 2023 Sep 22. PMID: 37738532; PMCID: PMC10667015.