E-MOSAIC Electronic Tool to Monitor Symptoms

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: * Diagnosis of advanced incurable cancer * Symptomatic disease, defined as meeting ≥ 1 of the following criteria: * Pain Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) ≥ 3/10 and/or morphine equivalent daily dose of ≥ 10 mg for ≥ 3 days * Anorexia VAS ≥ 3/10 and/or weight loss of ≥ 2% in 2 months or ≥ 5% in 6 months * Fatigue VAS ≥ 3/10 and/or Karnofsky performance status \< 70% * Depression or anxiety VAS ≥ 3/10 and/or treatment with antidepressants for ≥ 5 days and planned for ≥ 1 month * Receiving continuously, weekly, or biweekly palliative anticancer treatment meeting 1 of the following criteria: * At least 1 first-line treatment for any of the following: * Metastatic melanoma * Renal cell cancer * Pancreatic cancer * Biliary tract cancer * Mesothelioma * Prostate cancer (chemotherapy) * Advanced glioblastoma * At least 1 second-line treatment for any of the following: * Extensive stage small cell lung cancer * Stage IV non-small cell lung cancer * Colorectal cancer * Gastric cancer * Esophageal cancer * Bladder cancer * Sarcoma * Carcinoma of unknown primary * At least 1 third-line chemotherapy regimen for any of the following: * Metastatic breast cancer * Ovarian cancer * Anticancer treatment must be given in an outpatient setting, not within a clinical trial, with weekly monitoring, and expected tumor response rate ≤ 20% according to the literature * No testicular cancer * No…