Downstream Impact of Social Media Use and Variable Quality of Online Information About Prostate Cancer
Social media can benefit prostate cancer care through education and empowerment, but also have the potential for exposure to misinformation, leading to adverse health and/or economic impacts for patients and damaging the patient-physician relationship. Clinicians should promote digital health literacy and provide recommended sources of reliable online content for additional information.
Authors
- Aisha T. Langford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1758-691X)
- Tatiana Sanchez Nolasco
- Stacy Loeb (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3933-9207)
- Nataliya Byrne (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6376-5444)
- LaMont Barlow (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7605-3035)
- Scarlett Lin Gomez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5143-4867)
- June M. Chan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7620-569X)
- Mariana Rangel Camacho
- Adrian Rivera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2209-0686)
Institutions
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Wayne State University (US)
- NYU Langone Health (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Urology Oncology
- Published
- 2025-10-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euo.2025.09.004
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Digital Marketing and Social Media
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.20