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Assessing Unmet Information Needs of Breast Cancer Survivors: Exploratory Study of Online Health Forums Using Text Classification and Retrieval.

Susan McRoyMajid Rastegar-MojaradYanshan WangKathryn J RuddyTufia C HaddadHongfang Liu
Published in: JMIR cancer (2018)
Text from online health forums can be analyzed effectively using automated methods. Our analysis confirms that breast cancer survivors have many information needs that are not covered by the written documents they typically receive, as our results suggest that at most a third of breast cancer survivors' questions would be addressed by the materials currently provided to them.
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