Re-Mission 2: Nanobot's Revenge - Free Cancer Fighting Game App

Published: 2013-08-23 - Updated: 2019-04-29
Author: Cigna and HopeLab
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Synopsis: Re-Mission 2 Nanobots Revenge is a free app available for Android and Apple mobile devices designed to help young cancer patients fight their disease. Research shows that playing the games boosts players' positive emotions and increases self-efficacy... Over 120 youth with cancer collaborated with HopeLab to develop and test Re-Mission 2 games.

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Global health service company Cigna is on a mission: to get HopeLab's cancer-fighting game app Re-Mission 2: Nanobot's Revenge onto the phones and tablets of every young cancer patient in the world. The free app is available for Android and iOS (Apple) mobile devices.

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The Re-Mission 2: Nanobot's Revenge app, developed with support from Cigna, is just one of six ground-breaking Re-Mission 2 online games designed by HopeLab to help young cancer patients fight their disease.

Research shows that playing the games boosts players' positive emotions, increases self-efficacy (their belief in their ability to fight cancer) and shifts attitudes about chemotherapy, which lead to better adherence to prescribed treatments.

Each Re-Mission 2 game puts players inside the body to defeat cancer, using weapons like chemotherapy, antibiotics and the body's immune cells.

The action parallels real-world medical treatments used to fight cancer. The games are designed specifically for teens and young adults who are at risk of adverse cancer outcomes due to poor treatment adherence.

More than 120 teens and young adults with cancer collaborated with HopeLab to develop and test the Re-Mission 2 games, which are now available free online at www.re-mission2.org

"Whether you have cancer, or a family member, friend or classmate does, Re-Mission 2 games are a fun way to help you understand what it takes to fight the disease. Playing these games can help you or someone you care about fight and beat cancer," said S cott Josephs, M.D., Cigna national medical officer.

Screenshot of the Re-Mission 2: Nanobots Revenge app game.

"We began working with HopeLab to distribute the original Re-Mission game on CD and DVD to young people with cancer in 2007. With the new globally accessible Re-Mission 2: Nanobot's Revenge mobile app, our goal is to use online news sources, app-based promotions, and game sites to help get this cancer-fighting video game in the hands of every young person with cancer worldwide."

Innovative new tools are effective only if they're accessible to patients, and game apps like Re-Mission 2: Nanobot's Revenge can be played on mobile devices in waiting rooms, treatment clinics and at home," said Richard Tate, HopeLab vice president of communications and marketing.

"Cigna's support in developing and distributing the Re-Mission 2 online games and mobile app will help us reach young cancer patients and caregivers around the world."

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