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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 96(4):332-333; doi:10.1093/jnci.djh048
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Cancer Information on the World Wide Web: Gross Characteristics

Craig W. Trumbo

Correspondence to: Craig W. Trumbo, PhD, University of Vermont, Office of Health Promotion Research, 1 South Prospect St., Burlington, VT 05401 (e-mail: craig.trumbo@uvm.edu)

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Web-based cancer information has been examined (1–7), but its gross characteristics have not been previously described. This study provides such a description of sites in March 2001 and in March 2003.

In the sample of Web content taken in March 2001, iterative trials were used to determine the simplest search string that would yield results free of erroneous material. The search string used was "cancer OR oncology OR neoplas* OR tumor OR malignan* -astro* -horoscope -tropic -crab -zodiac." Searches were executed with the search engines Northern Light (www.northernlight.com) and Alta Vista (www.altavista.com). In 2001, the search engine . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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