Social Media and Your Cancer Patient

Social media and health care professionals: benefits, risks, and best practices.

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The Use of Facebook in Recruiting Participants for Health Research Purposes: A Systematic Review

Whitaker, C., Stevelink, S. A. M., & Fear, N. T. (2017) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/jmir.7071 · Cited by 731 · see citing works

Trust and Credibility in Web-Based Health Information: A Review and Agenda for Future Research

Sbaffi, L., & Rowley, J. (2017) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/jmir.7579 · Cited by 537 · see citing works

The Use of Social Media in Recruitment for Medical Research Studies: A Scoping Review

Topolovec‐Vranic, J., & Natarajan, K. (2016) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/jmir.5698 · Cited by 496 · see citing works

Online Medical Professionalism: Patient and Public Relationships: Policy Statement From the American College of Physicians and the Federation of State Medical Boards

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Twitter Social Media is an Effective Tool for Breast Cancer Patient Education and Support: Patient-Reported Outcomes by Survey

Attai, D. J., Cowher, M. S., Al-Hamadani, M., Schoger, J. M., Staley, A. C., & Landercasper, J. (2015) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/jmir.4721 · Cited by 357 · see citing works

Social Media and Clinical Care: Ethical, Professional, and Social Implications

Chretien, K. C., & Kind, T. (2013) · Circulation · doi:10.1161/circulationaha.112.128017 · Cited by 355 · see citing works

How Health Care Professionals Use Social Media to Create Virtual Communities: An Integrative Review

Rolls, K., Hansen, M. M., Jackson, D. W., & Elliott, D. (2016) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/jmir.5312 · Cited by 295 · see citing works

Does Tweeting Improve Citations? One-Year Results From the TSSMN Prospective Randomized Trial

Luc, J. G. Y., Archer, M. A., Arora, R. C., Bender, E. M., Blitz, A., Cooke, D. T., Hlci, T. N., Kidane, B., Ouzounian, M., Varghese, T. K., et al. (2020) · The Annals of Thoracic Surgery · doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2020.04.065 · Cited by 211 · see citing works

Systematic review of social media interventions for smoking cessation

Naslund, J. A., Kim, S. J., Aschbrenner, K. A., McCulloch, L. J., Brunette, M. F., Dallery, J., Bartels, S. J., & Marsch, L. A. (2017) · Addictive Behaviors · doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2017.05.002 · Cited by 184 · see citing works

Recruitment via social media: advantages and potential biases

Benedict, C., Hahn, A. L., Diefenbach, M. A., & Ford, J. S. (2019) · Digital Health · doi:10.1177/2055207619867223 · Cited by 149 · see citing works

Social Media Use in Interventions for Diabetes: Rapid Evidence-Based Review

Gabarrón, E., Årsand, E., & Wynn, R. (2018) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/10303 · Cited by 105 · see citing works

Beyond Traditional Newspaper Advertisement: Leveraging Facebook-Targeted Advertisement to Recruit Long-Term Smokers for Research

Carter‐Harris, L., Ellis, R. J. B., Warrick, A., & Rawl, S. M. (2016) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/jmir.5502 · Cited by 103 · see citing works

Clinical trials from the patient perspective: survey in an online patient community

DasMahapatra, P., Raja, P., Gilbert, J. D., & Wicks, P. J. (2017) · BMC Health Services Research · doi:10.1186/s12913-017-2090-x · Cited by 86 · see citing works

Interventions Using Social Media for Cancer Prevention and Management

Han, C. J., Lee, Y. J., & Demiris, G. (2017) · Cancer Nursing · doi:10.1097/ncc.0000000000000534 · Cited by 86 · see citing works

The Past, Present, and Future of House Calls

Kao, H., Conant, R., Soriano, T. A., & McCormick, W. C. (2009) · Clinics in Geriatric Medicine · doi:10.1016/j.cger.2008.10.005 · Cited by 70 · see citing works

Analysis of the Use and Impact of Twitter During American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meetings From 2011 to 2016: Focus on Advanced Metrics and User Trends

Pemmaraju, N., Thompson, M. A., Mesa, R. A., & Desai, T. (2017) · Journal of Oncology Practice · doi:10.1200/jop.2017.021634 · Cited by 67 · see citing works

Physician Perceptions of the Use of Social Media for Recruitment of Patients in Cancer Clinical Trials

Sedrak, M. S., Sun, V. C.-Y., Liu, J., George, K., Wong, A. R., Dale, W., & Dizon, D. S. (2019) · JAMA Network Open · doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.11528 · Cited by 29 · see citing works

The social dynamics of lung cancer talk on Twitter, Facebook and Macmillan.org.uk

Taylor, J., & Pagliari, C. (2019) · npj Digital Medicine · doi:10.1038/s41746-019-0124-y · Cited by 27 · see citing works

Twitter Activity Is Associated With a Higher Research Citation Index for Academic Thoracic Surgeons

Coret, M., Rok, M. J., Newman, J., Deonarain, D. M., Agzarian, J., Finley, C., Shargall, Y., Malík, P., Patel, Y. S., & Hanna, W. C. (2019) · The Annals of Thoracic Surgery · doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.09.075 · Cited by 19 · see citing works

Factors Influencing the Dissemination of Tweets at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2018

Sharp, S. P., Mackenzie, D. G., Ong, D. S. Y., Mountziaris, P. M., Logghe, H. J., Ferrada, P. A., & Wexner, S. D. (2020) · The American Surgeon · doi:10.1177/0003134820950680 · Cited by 14 · see citing works

Using Social Media as a Platform for Increasing Knowledge of Lung Cancer Screening in High-Risk Patients

Strong, A., & Renaud, M. (2020) · Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology · doi:10.6004/jadpro.2020.11.5.2 · Cited by 12 · see citing works

Factors influencing the e-health literacy in cancer patients: a systematic review

Zhang, Y., Xu, P., Sun, Q., Baral, S., Xi, L., & Wang, D. (2022) · Journal of Cancer Survivorship · doi:10.1007/s11764-022-01260-6 · Cited by 101 · see citing works

The usefulness of YouTube videos on lung cancer

Meteran, H., Høj, S., Sigsgaard, T., Diers, C. S., Remvig, C. L.-N., & Meteran, H. (2022) · Journal of Public Health · doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdac092 · Cited by 20 · see citing works

Realfood and Cancer: Analysis of the Reliability and Quality of YouTube Content

Segado-Fernández, S., Herrera‐Peco, I., Jiménez-Gómez, B., Ruíz-Núñez, C., Hidalgo, P. J. J., de Gracia, E. B., González‐Rodríguez, L. G., Torres-Ramírez, C., & Lozano-Estevan, M. D. C. (2023) · International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · doi:10.3390/ijerph20065046 · Cited by 13 · see citing works

Differences between doctors of medicine and dental medicine in the perception of professionalism on social networking sites: the development of the e-professionalism assessment compatibility index (ePACI)

Viskić, J., Marelić, M., Machala Poplašen, L., & Vukušić Rukavina, T. (2022) · BMC Medical Ethics · doi:10.1186/s12910-022-00870-0 · Cited by 10 · see citing works

Analysis of the influential factors of the emotional health of patients with cancer based on the structural equation model: the role of social media and emotional support

Peng, M., Zhang, Y., Wu, Y., & Li, R. (2023) · Supportive Care in Cancer · doi:10.1007/s00520-023-07877-2 · Cited by 9 · see citing works

Characterizing authoritative oncology-related key opinion leaders on Weibo: A social media profiling study

Duan, Y., Chen, Y., Sun, Q., Chen, J., Zhang, J., Yun, B., Cai, T., & Yuan, C. (2025) · Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing · doi:10.1016/j.apjon.2025.100742 · Cited by 5 · see citing works

Tweet topics on cancer among Indian Twitter users—computational approach using latent Dirichlet allocation topic modelling

Ramamoorthy, T., & Mappillairaju, B. (2023) · Journal of Computational Social Science · doi:10.1007/s42001-023-00222-x · Cited by 3 · see citing works

Endoscopic Spine Surgery on Instagram: Analysis of Content and Engagement

Shenker, T., Rush, A. J., Derman, P. B., Satin, A. M., & Rogers, M. P. (2024) · Cureus · doi:10.7759/cureus.62253 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Creating and Implementing a Principal Investigator Tool Kit for Enhancing Accrual to Late Phase Clinical Trials: Development and Usability Study

Higgins, K. A., Thomas, A., Soto, N., Paulus, R., George, T. J., Julian, T. B., Stine, S. H., Markham, M. J., & Werner‐Wasik, M. (2022) · JMIR Cancer · doi:10.2196/38514 · Cited by 2 · see citing works

Exploring stroke discourse on Twitter through content and network analysis among Indian users

Ramamoorthy, T., Kulothungan, V., & Mappillairaju, B. (2024) · Scientific Reports · doi:10.1038/s41598-024-65858-9 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Evaluating How Patients with Thyroid Cancer Use Online Resources and Social Media to Access Health Information

Samson, L., Hamilton, S. N., Berthelet, E., Tran, E., Wu, J., & Ingledew, P. (2025) · Journal of Cancer Education · doi:10.1007/s13187-025-02745-5 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Differences of professionalism perception on social networking sites between doctors of medicine and dental medicine: Development of e-professionalism assessment compatibility index (ePACI)Preprint

Viskić, J., Marelić, M., Poplašen, L. M., & Rukavina, T. V. (2022) · Research Square · doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1715693/v1

Conceptualization of Digital Platforms Within Cancer Communication: A Review of Barriers and Drivers of Online Tools to Empower Children and Adolescents with Cancer to Understand Their Disease

Cortés, M. D., Mediano, J. M., Montero, J. C. D. L. T., & Umpiérrez, A. F. (2025) · European Journal of Investigation in Health Psychology and Education · doi:10.3390/ejihpe15120242 · Cited by 1 · see citing works

Additional file 1 of Differences between doctors of medicine and dental medicine in the perception of professionalism on social networking sites: the development of the e-professionalism assessment compatibility index (ePACI)

Viskić, J., Marelić, M., Poplašen, L. M., & Vukušić Rukavina, T. (2024) · Figshare · doi:10.6084/m9.figshare.26550931

Helping people navigate and make sense of cancer information: challenges and perspectives

Rezende, L., DeCotiis, G., & Singhi, E. K. (2026) · Future Oncology · doi:10.1080/14796694.2026.2628969

Beyond the Clinic: A Netnographic Analysis of Head and Neck Cancer Survivors on Instagram

González‐Arriagada, W. A., Soto, M. E., Cantarutti, C., Rodríguez‐Oria, F., Masson, C., & Troncoso, C. (2026) · European Journal of Cancer Care · doi:10.1155/ecc/1167659

The Use of Social Media in Health Interventions for People Living with Cancer: A Systematic Review

Yang, L., de Moel‐Mandel, C., Wallens, K., & Lynch, C. (2026) · Health Communication · doi:10.1080/10410236.2026.2730346

Information needs, communication and usage of social media by cancer patients and their relatives

Braun, L. A., Zomorodbakhsch, B., Keinki, C., & Hübner, J. (2019) · Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology · doi:10.1007/s00432-019-02929-9 · Cited by 109 · see citing works

Supporting Cancer Patients through the Continuum of Care: A View from the Age of Social Networks and Computer-Mediated Communication

Bender, J. L., O'Grady, L. A., & Jadad, A. R. (2008) · Current Oncology · doi:10.3747/co.v15i0.270 · Cited by 41 · see citing works

Social Media for Oncologists

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The Role of Social Media and Breast Cancer: How Does It Impact Patients?

Gandamihardja, T., Liyanage, S., Coutee, T., Peled, A. W., & Masannat, Y. (2023) · Breast Care · doi:10.1159/000530433 · Cited by 11 · see citing works

Using social media for patient-driven cancer research

Manochakian, R., & Dizon, D. S. (2022) · Nature reviews. Cancer · doi:10.1038/s41568-022-00528-4 · Cited by 6 · see citing works