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Infoveillance and Social Listening (314) Participatory Medicine & E-Patients (878) Information Retrieval (349) Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making (866) Peer-to-Peer Support and Online Communities (798) Emotional, Social, Psychological Support for Cancer (251) User Needs and Competencies (456) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1141) Participatory Cancer Care (119) Patient Education for Cancer (227)

Published on in Vol 5 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/59625, first published .
How Patients With Cancer Use the Internet to Search for Health Information: Scenario-Based Think-Aloud Study

How Patients With Cancer Use the Internet to Search for Health Information: Scenario-Based Think-Aloud Study

How Patients With Cancer Use the Internet to Search for Health Information: Scenario-Based Think-Aloud Study

Authors of this article:

Fiorella Huijgens1, 2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Pascale Kwakman1, 2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Marij Hillen1, 2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Julia van Weert4, 5 Author Orcid Image ;   Monique Jaspers5, 6 Author Orcid Image ;   Ellen Smets1, 2, 3 Author Orcid Image ;   Annemiek Linn4, 7 Author Orcid Image
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