Privacy issues in publishing cancer-related stories in Cancer Patient Portal

This research investigated the privacy issues in publishing cancer stories among the public. Survey via questionnaires and interviews were conducted to help to understand the privacy concerns of the users especially among the cancer patients. Privacy in publishing is one of the key factors that will determine the success or failure of publishing service via Cancer Patient Portal. A good privacy for publishing service can be managed to attract and encourage the user to utilize the publishing service, raise user satisfaction levels and increase the return of investment of the service. The results of questionnaires and interviews after analysis reflect that users are willing to publish their experiences via publishing service in Cancer Patient Portal. We found that privacy factors have influenced on the willingness of users especially cancer patient using publishing service in Cancer Patient Portal.