Research

Recent studies on researching and analyzing social media content for health-related applications show that these cyber trends provide access to valuable health information, traditionally acquired with scientific methods such as observational epidemiological studies.

The rich amount of personal information shared openly among cancer patients and cancer-free people online is effectively mined to generate new knowledge on the topic, which cannot be easily uncovered with conventional migrant studies in our modern economy with population mobility patterns far more complex and dynamic than those observed in the past.