Daniel J. Sadowski1, Chandy S. Ellimoottil2, Ajay Tejwani3, Alex Gorbonos1
Canadian Journal of Urology, Vol.20, No.6, pp. 7015-7020, 2013
Abstract Introduction: Proton therapy (PT) for prostate cancer is an expensive treatment with limited evidence of benefit over conventional radiotherapy. We sought to study whether online information on PT for prostate cancer was balanced and whether the website source influenced the content presented.
Materials and methods: We applied a systematic search process to identify 270 weblinks associated with PT for prostate cancer, categorized the websites by source, and filtered the results to 50 websites using predetermined criteria. We then used a customized version of the DISCERN instrument, a validated tool for assessing the quality of consumer health information,… More >
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