Thyroid Cancer Patients’ Interests and Information Seeking
Behavior: Focused on Online Community Analysis
Int J Thyroidol
Published online April 23, 2020
© 2020 Korean Thyroid Association.
Kyung Ah Park1,2, Sanghee Kim3, Yong Sang Lee1,4,5, Hang-Seok Chang1,4,5 and Cheong Soo Park1,4,5
Thyroid Cancer Center, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine1, Department of Nursing,
Graduate School, Yonsei University2, College of Nursing & Mo-Im Kim Nursing Research Institute, Yonsei University3,
Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine4, Institute of Refractory Thyroid Cancer, Yonsei University5,
Seoul, Korea
Correspondence to: Yong Sang Lee, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, Thyroid Cancer Center, Institute of Refractory
Thyroid Cancer, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 211 Eonju-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul
06273, Korea
Tel: 82-2-2019-3370, Fax: 82-2-2019-4812, E-mail:
medilys@yuhs.ac Received December 3, 2019; Revised March 27, 2020; Accepted March 27, 2020.
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