The state and potential of social media in bladder cancer
- 21 November 2015
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in World Journal of Urology
- Vol. 34 (1), 57-62
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-015-1725-y
Abstract
Social media sites and services have become intimately woven into our interpersonal communications and have begun to stake a visible place in healthcare. Disease-specific Twitter hashtags, online patient groups and participation by patients, practitioners and advocacy groups are emblematic of this new paradigm.A literature review and summary of resources and publications on bladder cancer and social media.A majority of Western patients have access to and use the Internet for health information. Urologists and oncologists have used bladder-cancer-specific messaging at international meetings infrequently as compared to prostate and other non-urologic cancers. An active community does participate in online discussion, with differences between medical practitioners and patients/advocates. Advice is given with the aim of unifying this discussion.Keywords
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