The information age, cyberspace, and cancer

摘要

We are living in unprecedented times, in which oncologists and their patients are facing disruptive changes in healthcare, research, education, governmental politics, business, communication, and finance-changes brought on by the individual growth and merging of the fields of information technology, biology, and physics. This dramatic increase in the quantity, quality, and ease of finding information-and the effortlessness of connecting everyone and everything-all of which has been brought about by the Internet, has changed our lives forever. However, many of us remain frustrated with our inability to control this information overload in a time-limited living situation.