Nick Robinson: cancer death statistics 'terrify' patients Doctors need to arm their patients with better information about cancer survival to stop them becoming “terrified” by “Dr Google”, the BBC journalist Nick Robinson has said.
The Today presenter, who was treated for lung cancer in 2015, said oncologists were failing to adapt to the digital revolution leaving patients at the mercy of online statistics they often do not understand.
Mr Robinson said his own research on Google and Wikipedia following his diagnosis had left him “anxious and depressed”, and that online statistics had made him wrongly believe he had just a one per cent chance of survival. The Daily Telegraph
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