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BMC Urology (2025) 25:262 [https://doi.org/10.1186/s12894-025-01956-8](https://doi.org/10.1186/s12894-025-01956-8)  \nBMC Urology  \nRESEARCH Open Access  \nBlaCancer: a mobile health solution for enhancing bladder cancer care  \nAhmad Assi 1*†, Johnny Jal bout 1†, Bryan Youssef1, Ernest Diab 1 and Hampig-Raphaël Kourie 1  \nAbstract  \nBackground Bladder cancer (BC) ranks among the most prevalent ten cancers globally. Current management for BC has seen limited innovation, particularly for advanced stages. Mobile health (mHealth) technologies offer an opportunity to improve BC management by engaging, educating, and empowering patients and assisting physicians, yet available apps are insufficient.  \nObjective The goal of this study was to provide guidance for designing‘BlaCancer’, a mobile app that addresses unfulfilled needs in BC care. We conducted cross-sectional surveys with 16 BC patients and 28 physicians to determine their needs for an mHealth solution.  \nResults Patients perceived their levele of understanding of BC as moderate (mean score: 4 . 75/7), and 68. 8% supported mobile apps for education, medical records, and peer support. Physicians stressed the significance of treatment recommendations (89 . 3%), symptom recording (39 . 3%), and decision-making tools. Other concerns included data privacy and integration issues.  \nConclusion ‘BlaCancer’ uses stakeholder input to deliver education, symptom monitoring, and clinical decision assistance. The software intends to increase patient participation, improve communication, and streamline aspects of BC care. The small sample size is a l imitation that affects generalizability, but the findings still highlight opinions from physicians and patients regarding the role of an app for BC care. Future research will assess the influence on clinical outcomes and quality of life.  \nIntroduction  \nBladder cancer (BC) is among the ten most common cancers, with more than 614,000 new diagnoses of BC and 220,000 deaths attributed to BC in 2022, according to the GLOBOCAN 2022 data [1]. Despite the advent of new therapies in oncology, treatment for BC has remained largely unchanged for the past decades. As a result, the  \n†Ahmad Assi and Johnny Jal bout contributed equally to this work.  \n*Correspondence: Ahmad Assi  \n[ahmad.assi@net.usj.edu.lb](ahmad.assi@net.usj.edu.lb); [a. m.assi@hotmail.com](a. m.assi@hotmail.com)  \n1Hematology-Oncology Department, Hôtel-Dieu de France University Hospital, Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Beirut 166830, Lebanon  \nsurvival rate of patients diagnosed with BC remains modest, particularly muscle-invasive BC with a 5-year overall survival rate of 60 to 70%, and metastatic urothelial cancer, with a 5-year survival rate ranging from 5% to 30%. One major barrier to progress is the disproportionate underfunding of BC research, notably from the National Institute of Health (NIH), in part due to poor public awareness [2].  \nDue to innovation, demographic transformations and the availability of new technology, the dawn of electronic health (eHealth) started to change the practice of medicine during the 1920s. While other domains of science and engineering evolved, eHealth followed suit, since its birth and evolution were the result and are driven by  \n© The Author(s) 2025. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the mater","cbCaitRC5Ooeb2oh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitRC5Ooeb2oh","pdf",1097640,"English","# Abstract\n## Background\n## Objective\n## Results\n## Conclusion\n# Introduction\n# Materials and methods\n## Study design and rationale","[{\"question\":\"What problem does “BlaCancer” aim to address in bladder cancer care?\",\"answer\":\"It targets unmet needs in bladder cancer management, where current apps are insufficient for education, engagement, and clinical support.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the BlaCancer app design guidance developed in this study?\",\"answer\":\"Researchers conducted cross-sectional surveys with 16 bladder cancer patients and 28 physicians to capture needs for an mHealth solution.\"},{\"question\":\"What key functions were supported by patients and physicians?\",\"answer\":\"Patients supported mobile apps for education, medical records, and peer support; physicians emphasized treatment recommendations and symptom recording, along with decision-making tools.\"}]","BlaCancer - a mobile health solution for enhancing bladder cancer care | PDF",1790195311]