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An alarming prognosis: how people affected by pancreatic cancer use (and avoid) Internet information
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This article looks at how patients with pancreatic cancer use the Internet, and considers its potential negative effects for people with a life threatening illness. We designed a qualitative study using semi-structured interviews collected by maximum variation sampling. Respondents were recruited from all over the UK in 2009/10. We interviewed 32 people with pancreatic cancer and eight relatives/carers of people who had recently died of pancreatic cancer. In contrast to a similar study we und...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1515/1944-2866.1162
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- De Gruyter Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Policy and Internet Journal website
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 2
- Article number:
- 3
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
- DOI:
- Source identifiers:
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471257
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:471257
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- pubs:471257
- Deposit date:
- 2014-06-30
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- Copyright holder:
- Policy Studies Organization
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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- © 2012 Policy Studies Organization. The full text of this article is not available in ORA.
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