ChatGPT shows promise for improving breast cancer education materials

ChatGPT can simplify responses to questions about breast cancer prevention and screening by improving the reading ease and readability of educational materials while maintaining overall clinical appropriateness, researchers have found.The findings could translate to better support for patients navigating breast cancer screening, wrote a team led by Hana Haver, MD, of the University of Maryland Medical Intelligent Imaging Center in Baltimore. The study findings were published February 2 in Radiology: Imaging Cancer."In the context of breast cancer screening, increasing the readability of patient-facing material has been shown to improve patient follow-up for mammography recalls," the group noted.The average U.S. adult reads at an eighth-grade level, and "adequate readability" of health materials is considered to be the ability to read at grades six to eight levels and below. When it comes to breast cancer screening, previous research has shown that women with low reading skill have less knowledge of mammography, and thus decreased screening rates.Haver and colleagues explored whether the use of ChatGPT to simplify breast cancer prevention materials would improve their readability and thus be more useful to a wider population. They conducted a study in March and August 2023 that used ChatGPT to simplify responses to 25 questions about breast cancer to a sixth-grade reading level and assessed the simplified responses for clinical accuracy. The responses were evaluated for readin...
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