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## Background Breast cancer has become one of the most frequently diagnosed carcinomas and the leading cause of cancer deaths. The substantial growth in the number of breast cancer patients has put great pressure on health services. Meanwhile, the information patients need has increased and become more complicated. Therefore, a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of their information needs is urgently needed to improve the quality of health care. However, previous studies related to the information needs of breast cancer patients have focused on different perspectives and have only contributed to individual results. A systematic review and synthesis of breast cancer patients’ information needs is critical. ## Objective This paper aims to systematically identify, evaluate, and synthesize existing primary qualitative research on the information needs of breast cancer patients. ## Methods Web of Science, EBSCO, Scopus, ProQuest, PubMed, PsycINFO, The Cochrane Library, the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature were searched on February 12 and July 9, 2019, to collect relevant studies. A Google Scholar search, interpersonal network recommendations, and reference

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Author

Hongru Lu; Juan Xie; Lynette Hammond Gerido; Ying Cheng; Ya Chen; Lizhu Sun

Publisher

JMIR Publications Inc.

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)