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Study: Online prostate cancer information may be hard for patients to understand

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Although experts recommend that patient-education materials be written at the fourth-through-sixth grade level, a study published online by the Journal of Urology found that only 4.8% of websites describing prostate cancer were written below a high school reading level. The median reading level was 12th grade. Read more.

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