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Do Cancer Patients Tweet? Examining the Twitter Use of Cancer Patients in Japan

Atsushi Tsuya, Yuya Sugawara, Atsushi Tanaka, Hiroto Narimatsu

Journal of Medical Internet Research · 2014 · 99 citations · 11 references

Open access

Abstract

This study demonstrates that cancer patients share information about their underlying disease, including diagnosis, symptoms, and treatments, via Twitter. This information could prove useful to health care providers.

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Geometric Graph Theory, Engineering, Graph Theory +7

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Systems Biology, Engineering, Molecular Biological Method +4

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Social Medium Monitoring, Twitter Chatter, Communication +20

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Social Data Analysis, Engineering, Social Medium Monitoring +16

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