Can Artificial Intelligence Help Improve Patient Understanding of Their Diagnosis? Using ChatGPT as an Interactive Chatbot for Patients With Localized Prostate Cancer, a Feasibility Study
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine if ChatGPT (an artificial intelligence driven chatbot) can help patients better understand their own pathology results and prostate cancer diagnosis.
Description
Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer among men and poses a significant challenge due to its varied clinical course, ranging from indolent tumors that only requires surveillance, to aggressive life-threatening metastatic disease.1 Nearly 1 million prostate biopsies are performed in the United States each year, and approximately 25% of these biopsies result in a prostate cancer diagnosis. One out every four patients receiving a prostate biopsy will inevitably have a positive pathology report, and are typically waiting anywhere from 2 days to multiple weeks prior to follow-up with the…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 19+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: * Participants must be \>18 years or age * Participants must have received a prostate biopsy at Cleveland Clinic main campus within the last 30 days, and have not received follow-up on their pathology results * Participants must be willing to attend an in-person follow-up to review their pathology * Participants must be English speaking * Participants must provide informed consent Exclusion Criteria: • Participants who do not meet the inclusion criteria, as stated above
Interventions
- DeviceChat GPT
On the date of appointment, participants will be given up to 30 minutes, to interact with a pre-prompted Chat GPT (Prostate Pathology Guide) using a Cleveland clinic device.
Location
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland Clinic Glickman Urologic InstituteCleveland, Ohio