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Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Surveillance and Infodemiology (113) Innovations and Technology in Cancer Care (531) Emotional, Social, Psychological Support for Cancer (250) Peer-to-Peer Support and Online Communities (797) Information Quality in Digital Media (407) Infodemiology and Infoveillance (1558) Infoveillance, Infodemiology, Digital Disease Surveillance, Infodemic Management (1139) Breast Cancer (290)

Published on in Vol 8, No 4 (2022): Oct-Dec

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/42245, first published .
How TikTok Is Being Used to Help Individuals Cope With Breast Cancer: Cross-sectional Content Analysis

How TikTok Is Being Used to Help Individuals Cope With Breast Cancer: Cross-sectional Content Analysis

How TikTok Is Being Used to Help Individuals Cope With Breast Cancer: Cross-sectional Content Analysis

Authors of this article:

Corey H Basch1 Author Orcid Image ;   Grace C Hillyer2 Author Orcid Image ;   Bhavya Yalamanchili1 Author Orcid Image ;   Aldean Morris1 Author Orcid Image
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