Social Media and the Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Patient with Cancer

Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 449-455

  Perales, Miguel Angel ^a,b   Drake, Emily K ^c   Pemmaraju, Naveen ^d   Wood, William A ^e  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c Independent Healthcare Consultant   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent and young adult; Cancer; Education; Facebook; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; BONE TUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; COMMUNITY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MELANOMA; REVIEW; SOCIAL MEDIA; TESTIS CANCER; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERNET; NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL MEDIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84958767128     PISSN: 15588211     EISSN: 1558822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11899-016-0313-6     Document Type: Review

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