A pattern-matched Twitter analysis of US cancer-patient sentiments
Journal of Surgical ResearchPublished 25 June 2016
W. Christian Crannell, Eric M. Clark, Chris Jones, Ted A. James, Jesse Moore
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It is confirmed that patients are expressing themselves openly on social media about their illness and that unique cancer diagnoses are correlated with varying degrees of happiness.
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The study confirms that patients are expressing themselves openly on social media about their illness and that unique cancer diagnoses are correlated with varying degrees of happiness. Twitter can be employed as a tool to identify patient needs and as a means to gauge the cancer patient experience.
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