Popular breast cancer websites not necessarily of higher quality

The more popular websites providing information about breast cancer are not necessarily of higher quality. More popular sites are more likely to contain information on clinical trials and results of trials than less popular ones. Meric and colleagues (p 577) suggest that type rather than quality of content determines popularity of websites and it remains the responsibility of the medical community to direct patients to sites of known quality.


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Breast cancer on the world wide web: cross sectional survey of quality of information and popularity of websites
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