Health App, Full-Stack Development
A guided companion for prostate cancer patients going through radiotherapy: structured education about what each stage of treatment involves, alongside day-to-day symptom tracking they can bring to their care team.
- Role
- CTO & full-stack development
- Year
- 2026
- Technology
- Flutter, Firebase, Android
Built and maintained as volunteer CTO of Cancer Focus Africa, alongside the organisation's website.
Project context.
The brief
Patients starting radiotherapy for prostate cancer are handed a lot of information at once, then sent home to manage weeks of side effects on their own, with no structured way to record what they experience between appointments.
The response
As volunteer CTO at Cancer Focus Africa I built myRTapp end to end — the Flutter application and the Firebase backend behind it. It explains each stage of treatment in plain language and lets patients log symptoms day by day, so they arrive at review appointments with a record rather than a recollection.
The outcome
The app is published on Google Play under Cancer Focus Africa and is in active use, with the education and tracking flows refined through a closed testing round before public release.
Contribution
- Technical direction
- Flutter application
- Firebase backend
- Cancer Focus Africa website
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