Although the program is quite intuitive, patients will require assistance to start using it and to navigate the program, and several hours to complete it if one would want to do so. For example, the program gave a frequency for carcinoma of the uterus but not for retinal lesions with tamoxifen. It gave PDQ only a single-paragraph definition. Patients might feel inadequately treated because they are not seen at a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center or other facility listed. Using this logic, only 3 of the 7 editors would be considered to be working at an adequate facility.
Some states have no medical facilities mentioned at all.
I would recommend the program as a valuable adjunct to the education of non-professionals interested in breast cancer. A volunteer with limited training in computers could easily assist in the use of this program so that those interested could get maximum benefit from it.