Cancer-Related Internet Use and Its Association With Patient Decision Making and Trust in Physicians Among Patients in an Early Drug Development Clinic: A Questionnaire-Based Cross-Sectional Observational Study

Conclusions: Despite the plethora of websites related to cancer and cancer clinical trials, patients in early-phase clinical trial settings trust their physicians more than Web-based information. Cancer-related organizations should provide regularly updated links to trustworthy websites with cancer and clinical trial information for patients and providers and educate providers on reliable cancer websites so that they can better direct their patients to appropriate internet content.

Source: Journal of Medical Internet Research - March 13, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Goldy C. George Eucharia C. Iwuanyanwu Adrianna S. Buford Sarina A. Piha-Paul Vivek Subbiah Siqing Fu Daniel D. Karp Shubham Pant Christina O. Hinojosa Kenneth R. Hess Charles S. Cleeland Elmer V. Bernstam Funda Meric-Bernstam David S. Hong Source Type: research