La terminologia que utilitzen les pacients de càncer de mama: una anàlisi descriptiva

Terminology used by breast cancer patients: A descriptive analysis

In the field of health communication, new technologies have gained significant prominence and are increasingly being consolidated as a new medical communication channel. This paper describes the linguistic-cognitive study that we conducted on the data collected from the chat content of the first clinical virtual community of breast cancer patients in Catalonia. More specifically, we studied the terminology used by patients when talking about their illness in a virtual, anonymous but professionally controlled environment.