Using Twitter for breast cancer prevention: An analysis of breast cancer awareness month

BMC Cancer

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Thackeray, Rosemary ^a   Burton, Scott H ^b   Giraud Carrier, Christophe ^c   Rollins, Stephen ^c   Draper, Catherine R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY IDAHO   (United States)

^c 3361 TMCB   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Breast cancer; Campaign; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BREAST CANCER; BREAST SELF EXAMINATION; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SCREENING; CLOTHING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COOPERATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAMMOGRAPHY; MASTECTOMY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PUBLIC FIGURE; SOCIAL MEDIA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84886381106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-13-508     Document Type: Article

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