Testicular cancer and YouTube: What do you expect from a social media platform?

Francesco Di BelloClaudia Collà RuvoloSimone CilioRoberto La RoccaMarco CapeceMassimiliano CretaGiuseppe CelentanoGianluigi CalifanoSimone MorraCarmine IacovazzoAntonio CovielloPasquale BuonannoFerdinando FuscoCiro ImbimboVincenzo MironeNicola Longo

Published in: International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association (2022)

YouTube™ is a fast and open-access source for mass information. The overall quality of the testicular cancer contents provided is sadly unsatisfactory, in the present likewise in the past. However, YouTube™ videos mentioning treatment options showed higher quality content, than the remaining one. Nevertheless, all the videos analyzed underestimated the testicular cancer effects on fertility. Nowadays, YouTube™ cannot be recommended as a reliable source of information on testicular cancer.

Keyphrases

papillary thyroid
social media
squamous cell
health information
germ cell
lymph node metastasis
high throughput
quality improvement
single cell