Using Social Media to Characterize Public Sentiment Toward Medical Interventions Commonly Used for Cancer Screening: An Observational Study

Omar Metwally   ^{1, 2} , BS, MD ;   Seth Blumberg   ^{3, 4} , MD, PhD ;   Uri Ladabaum   ⁵ , MD, MS ;   Sidhartha R. Sinha   ⁵ , MD

¹ Department of Clinical Informatics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

² Department of Internal Medicine, Highland General Hospital, Oakland, CA, United States

³ Francis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁴ St Mary's Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁵ School of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States