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Editorial
. 2020 Apr;5(2):e000696.
doi: 10.1136/esmoopen-2020-000696.

Patient and family support in the era of fake e-medicine: food for thought from an international consensus panel

Davide Mauri  1   2 , Konstantinos Kamposioras  3 , Dimitrios Tzachanis  4 , Maria Tolia  5 , Antonis Valachis  6 , Mario Dambrosio  7 , Filippo Alongi  8 , Ramon Andrade De Mello  9   10 , Jozsef Lövey  11 , Alan Anthoney  12 , Christos Christopoulos  13 , Haytham Hamed Saraireh  14 , Panteleimon Kountourakis  15 , Eleftherios Kampletsas  16 , Lampriani Tsali  17 , Theodoros Tsakiridis  18 , Ioannis Kosovitsas  19 , Athanasios Soukovelos  20 , Diamantina Lymperatou  20 , Nikolaos Polyzos  21 , George Zarkavelis  22
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Editorial

Patient and family support in the era of fake e-medicine: food for thought from an international consensus panel

Davide Mauri et al. ESMO Open. 2020 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: fake medicine; guidelines; internet; parapharmacy and counterfeit drugs; patients protection; recommendations; web.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Fake medicine on the web and the new internet e-data outbreak disease: a vicious cycle of harmful self-sustaining and unregulated mechanisms driven by paramedicine markets profits. Fake medicine data outbreaks represent a new and uncontrolled internet disease with detrimental impact on patients’ outcome and compliance to recommended treatment.
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