Erschienen in:
04.06.2022 | Letter to Editor
Using Google as a Source of Information About Breast Cancer
verfasst von:
Faruk Tas, Kayhan Erturk
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Surgery
|
Ausgabe 2/2023
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Excerpt
The Internet is the main source of health information for the majority of the patients and population. Like other tumors, internet search data reflecting the interest of populations can also provide information about breast cancer (BC) for estimating its incidence and/or mortality rates and trends over time [
1‐
8]. The studies were rarely specific to BC alone [
6], or they were mainly associated with other malignancies [
1‐
5,
7,
8]. Some found the BC search term to be associated with disease incidence [
1,
4,
5,
7,
8]. Furthermore, seasonal associations were observed [
1‐
3,
5‐
8]. Searches for BC dramatically increased in specific periods of the year, demonstrating the influence of the “Pink October” [
1‐
3,
5‐
8]. We aimed to question the interest in BC through an analysis of searches in Google Trends over the last 16 years. …
