Making informed cancer treatment choices: cautions when using the internet
Robert O’Connor, PhD, from the Irish Cancer Society, Dublin, Ireland, stresses the need for patients to be careful when searching the internet, before providing information on methods to carefully retrieve information. Speaking at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) 2018 Congress in Munich, Germany, he emphasizes the need to receive specialist information, and encourages openness when visiting oncologists.
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