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Project synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>One in three people in the Netherlands will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. And cancer remains the nation’s biggest cause of death. The internet lets patients obtain information and get support from fellow patients through on-line discussion forums, with benefical effect on well-being ( (van Uden-Kraan, 2009; Batenburg en Das, 2014). In an earlier SIDN Fund-supported project called Patient Forum Miner (2016), advanced text analysis software was developed to automatically analyse forum posts and develop hypotheses. The idea of using patients’ experiences as a knowledge resource to complement curated medical data has attracted a lot of interest at several oncological conferences and at the KNAW conference on citizen science. SIDN Fund is now supporting a PhD research project, in which hypothesis generation on the basis of patient forum text mining will be scientifically validated.<\/p>\n

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Project team:<\/strong> Wessel Kraaij, Gerard van Oortmerssen, Suzan Verberne (Leiden University), Hans Gelderblom (LUMC), Stephan Raaijmakers (TNO).<\/p>\n

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