Social media in cancer care: Highlights, challenges & opportunities

Future Oncology

Volumn 12, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 1549-1552

  Attai, Deanna J ^a   Sedrak, Mina S ^b   Katz, Matthew S ^c   Thompson, Michael A ^d   Anderson, Patricia F ^e   Kesselheim, Jennifer C ^f   Fisch, Michael J ^g   Graham, David L ^h   Utengen, Audun ⁱ   Johnston, Claire ^j   Miller, Robert S ^j   Dizon, Don S ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Aurora Health Care   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g AIM Specialty Health   (United States)

^h LEVINE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ Symplur LLC   (United States)

^j AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY   (United States)

^k MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Author keywords

cancer; cancer research; clinical trials; communication; crowdsourcing; health information; health promotion; social media; social support; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CANCER RESEARCH; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; CROWDSOURCING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; NEOPLASM; NOTE; PATIENT AUTONOMY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVACY; PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGE; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; ONCOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; NEOPLASMS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84975853322     PISSN: 14796694     EISSN: 17448301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fon-2016-0065     Document Type: Note

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