Tweeting About Prostate and Testicular Cancers: Do Twitter Conversations and the 2013 Movember Canada Campaign Objectives Align?

Journal of Cancer Education

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 236-243

  Bravo, Caroline A ^a   Hoffman Goetz, Laurie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Campaign; Health communication; Prostate cancer; Social media; Testicular cancer

Indexed keywords

BLOGGING; CANADA; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL MEDIA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BLOGGING; CANADA; COMMUNICATION; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DATA COLLECTION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84963815051     PISSN: 08858195     EISSN: 15430154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13187-015-0796-1     Document Type: Article

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