How can you be careful about cancer information on websites,
Twitter, YouTube, blogs, Facebook, and e-mail? Online sources of
health information should make it easy for people to learn who
is responsible for posting information, the original source of
the information that is posted, and the medical credentials of
people who prepare or review the material that is posted. The
Federal Trade Commission has produced a helpful video, posted at
the right, that describes how you can be a careful consumer of
health information that you find online. More resources are
listed below. Questions You Should Ask - Who manages this
information? The person or group that has published health
information online should be identified somewhere. - Who is
paying for the project, and what is their purpose? You should be
able to find this in the “About Us” section. - What is the
original source of the information that they have posted? If the
information was originally published in a research journal or a
book, they should say which s