The impact of the internet on cancer outcomes

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 356-371

  Eysenbach, Gunther ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RESEARCH; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; COMPUTER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; E-MAIL; EXPECTATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL LITERATURE; ONLINE SYSTEM; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY CONTROL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUPPORT GROUP; WELLBEING;

EID: 0347756651     PISSN: 00079235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3322/canjclin.53.6.356     Document Type: Review

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