Minority men not represented in online media re prostate cancer, NYU researchers report
Prostate cancer hits the same groups hard
(Editor’s note: I recently began writing for Medscape Medical News on primary care. I was assigned this article on prostate cancer. I continue to write “A Patient’s Journey” for MedPage at https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/apatientsjourney)
By Howard Wolinsky
Prostate cancer disproportionately affects Black and Latinx men, but it can be a challenge to find Black and Brown faces in online content about the disease, researchers reported March 1 in The Journal of Urology.
The findings, by a group at NYU Langone Health in New York City, come at a time when Americans overall are reporting a growing lack of confidence in their physicians.
At the same time, the use of social media and conventional online resources to search for health information is surging and misinformation is rampant. The lack of representation online could undermine the ability of Black and Latinx men with prostate cancer to make well-informed choices about their care, according to the researchers.
The new findings are "very important because shared decision-making is central to prostate cancer care," said Stacy Loeb, MD, a urologist at NYU Langone Health and Manhattan Veterans Affairs, who led the study.
(The rest of the article, go to https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/968371)
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