Understanding topics and sentiment in an online cancer survivor community

Journal of the National Cancer Institute - Monographs

Volumn , Issue 47, 2013, Pages 195-198

  Portier, Kenneth ^a   Greer, Greta E ^a   Rokach, Lior ^b   Ofek, Nir ^b   Wang, Yafei ^c   Biyani, Prakhar ^c   Yu, Mo ^c   Banerjee, Siddhartha ^c   Zhao, Kang ^d   Mitra, Prasenjit ^c   Yen, John ^c  

^a AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; COLON CANCER; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMMUNITY; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MASTECTOMY; NEOPLASM; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL SUPPORT; BREAST TUMOR; COLORECTAL TUMOR; FEMALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF HELP; SOCIAL MEDIA; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES;

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84892456267     PISSN: 10526773     EISSN: 17456614     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1093/jncimonographs/lgt025     Document Type: Article

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