Reliability of Cancer Treatment Information on the Internet: Observational Study.
Ryo OgasawaraNoriyuki KatsumataTatsushi ToyookaYuko AkaishiTakaaki YokoyamaGemmu KadokuraPublished in: JMIR cancer (2018)
Of the investigated sites providing information on cancer treatment on the internet, the percentage of sites that seemed to provide harmful information was much higher than that of sites providing reliable information. The reliability level rating was highly consistent between the medical students' group and the medical oncologists' group and also between the cancer survivors' group and the medical oncologists' group.