Chenjie Xu|Yi Wang|Hongxi Yang|Jie Hou|Li Sun|Xinyu Zhang|Xinxi Cao|Yabing Hou|Lan Wang|Qiliang Cai|Yaogang Wang
Association Between Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Web-Based Data in China: Infodemiology Study
Tianjin Medical University|New York University|Tianjin Medical University|Tianjin Medical University|Tianjin Medical University|Tianjin Medical University|Tianjin Medical University|Tianjin Medical University|Tianjin Medical University|Tianjin Medical University|Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University|Tianjin Medical University
cancer poses serious threat health chinese people resulting major challenge public health work today people obtain relevant information medical workers hospitals also internet place realtime search behaviors reflect populations awareness cancer completely new perspective could driven underlying cancer epidemiology however webretrieved data yet well validated understoodthis study aimed explore whether correlation exists incidence mortality cancers normalized internet search volumes big data platform baidu also assessed whether distribution people searched specific types cancer differed gender finally determined whether regional disparities among people searched web cancerrelated informationstandard boolean operators used choose search terms type cancer spearmans correlation analysis used explore correlations among monthly search index values cancer type monthly incidence mortality rates conducted cointegration analysis search index data incidence rates examine whether stable equilibrium existed also conducted cointegration analysis search index data mortality datathe monthly baidu index significantly correlated cancer incidence rates 26 28 cancers china lung cancer r80 p001 liver cancer r28 p016 stomach cancer r50 p001 esophageal cancer r50 p001 colorectal cancer r81 p001 pancreatic cancer r86 p001 breast cancer r56 p001 brain nervous system cancer r63 p001 leukemia r75 p001 nonhodgkin lymphoma r88 p001 hodgkin lymphoma r91 p001 cervical cancer r64 p001 prostate cancer r67 p001 bladder cancer r62 p001 gallbladder biliary tract cancer r88 p001 lip oral cavity cancer r88 p001 ovarian cancer r58 p001 larynx cancer r82 p001 kidney cancer r73 p001 squamous cell carcinoma r94 p001 multiple myeloma r84 p001 thyroid cancer r77 p001 malignant skin melanoma r55 p001 mesothelioma r79 p001 testicular cancer r57 p001 basal cell carcinoma r83 p001 monthly baidu index significantly correlated cancer mortality rates 24 27 cancers terms whole population number women searched cancerrelated information slowly risen time people aged 3039 years likely use search engines retrieve cancerrelated knowledge east china highest web search volumes cancersearch behaviors indeed reflect public awareness cancer different angle research internet search behaviors could present innovative timely way monitor estimate cancer incidence mortality rates especially cancers included national registries