PMID- 31485916
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210823
LR  - 20210823
IS  - 1543-0154 (Electronic)
IS  - 0885-8195 (Linking)
VI  - 36
IP  - 1
DP  - 2021 Feb
TI  - Adverse Effects of Radiotherapy and Chemotherapy for Common Malignancies: What Is 
      the Quality of Information Patients Are Finding Online?
PG  - 178-188
LID - 10.1007/s13187-019-01614-2 [doi]
AB  - Little is known about the availability of high-quality online health information 
      (OHI) for adverse effects (AEs) of radiotherapy (RT) and chemotherapy (CHT). 
      Optimal search strategies for gaining access to high-quality OHI for these topics 
      are not well-established. This study explores the quality of, potential 
      disparities in, and possible search strategies for OHI pertaining to AEs of RT 
      and CHT. One hundred twenty phrases on generalized and malignancy site-specific 
      AEs of RT and CHT were searched on Google. The Health on the Net Foundation 
      (HONcode) framework was applied to assess the quality of the first 100 websites 
      for each search phrase. Comparisons of the availability of high-quality OHI were 
      made between different languages, malignancy sites, and treatment modalities (RT 
      vs CHT). Of the 12,000 RT and CHT AE websites analyzed, approximately half of the 
      first 10 websites returned for each search were HONcode-accredited; approximately 
      a fifth of the first 100 websites returned were HONcode-accredited. Such low 
      availability of high-quality OHI persisted throughout different languages 
      (English, French, Spanish) and common malignancy sites (breast, prostate, lung), 
      with some variations between languages, malignancy sites, and RT vs CHT. Despite 
      the important role of OHI in cancer patients' approach to health information 
      gathering and decision-making, the availability of high-quality OHI for the AEs 
      of common oncologic treatments, RT and CHT, is low across different languages and 
      common malignancy sites. Our findings demonstrate the need for improvement in the 
      availability of high-quality OHI. Therefore, providers should take an active 
      stance in directing patients to high-quality OHI.
FAU - Dee, Edward Christopher
AU  - Dee EC
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6119-0889
AD  - Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. 
      Edward_Dee@hms.harvard.edu.
FAU - Lee, Grace
AU  - Lee G
AD  - Harvard Medical School, 25 Shattuck Street, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - England
TA  - J Cancer Educ
JT  - Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association 
      for Cancer Education
JID - 8610343
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - Internet
MH  - Language
MH  - Male
MH  - Medical Oncology
MH  - *Neoplasms/therapy
MH  - *Radiation Oncology
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Chemotherapy
OT  - Internet
OT  - Oncology
OT  - Patient education
OT  - Radiotherapy
OT  - eHealth
EDAT- 2019/09/06 06:00
MHDA- 2021/08/24 06:00
CRDT- 2019/09/06 06:00
PHST- 2019/09/06 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/08/24 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/09/06 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1007/s13187-019-01614-2 [pii]
AID - 10.1007/s13187-019-01614-2 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Cancer Educ. 2021 Feb;36(1):178-188. doi: 10.1007/s13187-019-01614-2.