Cancer patients turning to mass media and non-experts for info: increasing inappropriate use of high-cost advanced imaging procedures

The increasing use of expensive medical imaging procedures in the U.S. like positron emission tomography (PET) scans is being driven, in part, by patient decisions made after obtaining information from lay media and non-experts, and not from health care providers. That is the result from a three-year-long analysis of survey data appearing in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Read more here.