Patients That Seek Health News On Internet More Likely To Receive Latest Treatments
Monday, February 23, 2009 - 10:36
in Health & Medicine
A new analysis finds that when colorectal cancer patients seek out health information from the Internet and news media, they are more likely to be aware of and receive the latest treatments for their disease. Patients who sought information about treatments for colorectal cancer were 2.83 times more likely to have heard about targeted therapies and 3.22 times more likely to have received targeted therapies than people who did not seek information.