ChatGPT can help guide and empower patients after prostate cancer diagnosis
H. A. COLLIN, Kandice Keogh, Marnique Basto, Stacy Loeb, Matthew J. Roberts
Abstract
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Patients often face uncertainty about what they should know after prostate cancer diagnosis. Web-based information is common but is at risk of being of poor quality or readability. SUBJECTS/METHODS: We used ChatGPT, a freely available Artificial intelligence (AI) platform, to generate enquiries about prostate cancer that a newly diagnosed patient might ask and compared to Google search trends. Then, we evaluated ChatGPT responses to these questions for clinical appropriateness and quality using standardised tools. RESULTS: ChatGPT generates broad and representative questions, and provides understandable, clinically sound advice. CONCLUSIONS: AI can guide and empower patients after prostate cancer diagnosis through education. However, the limitations of the ChatGPT language-model must not be ignored and require further evaluation and optimisation in the healthcare field.