'Easily Understand Difficult Cancer Terms'... LunitCare's 'Cancer Terminology Dictionary' Service

LunitCare announced on the 12th that it has introduced a cancer terminology dictionary feature into its service to help patients and caregivers easily understand difficult cancer-related terms.

Introduction image of LunitCare's 'Cancer Terminology Dictionary'
[Photo by LunitCare]

The cancer terminology dictionary automatically detects specialized cancer-related terms within the text that cancer patients and caregivers may find difficult when reading LunitCare’s informational articles and provides their meanings in the form of speech bubbles. This allows people unfamiliar with cancer or medical terminology to better understand the content regardless of their health literacy level.

According to a study published this year in JAMA Network Open by the American Medical Association, people who understand health information well use digital health management tools 1.5 times more effectively than those who do not. Especially during health-related issues such as a pandemic, this gap was found to widen to 1.9 times.

LunitCare’s cancer terminology dictionary feature was developed to provide a simple and intuitive interface so that cancer patients and caregivers with low health literacy or digital literacy can immediately understand the meanings of terms without separate searches. The underlying content used here was created utilizing the 'Cancer Terminology Dictionary' materials obtained through a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the National Cancer Center. LunitCare’s medical team supplemented these materials, resulting in over 1,500 more entries than those provided by the National Cancer Center through its portal service.

Lunit Care's Cancer Terminology Dictionary Service Screen [Image Source: Lunit Care]

Park Eun-su, CEO of LunitCare, said, "LunitCare’s goal is to help all cancer patients and their families easily access and effectively use the information they need so that all cancer patients can become healthy," adding, "We will continue to pursue user-centered innovation."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.