Google searches do not correlate with melanoma incidence in majority English speaking countries

Recent reports have suggested that internet search behaviour may be a valuable tool to estimate melanoma incidence and mortality. Previous studies have used incorrect statistical methods, were focussed on the United States and/or did not use non-cancer control search terms to provide a context for i...

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Autores principales: McDonald, Laura, Simpson, Alex, Graham, Sophie, Schultze, Anna, Nordstrom, Beth, Durani, Piyush, Mehmud, Faisal, Ramagopalan, Sreeram V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Brief Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6550200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31304324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-018-0050-4
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description Recent reports have suggested that internet search behaviour may be a valuable tool to estimate melanoma incidence and mortality. Previous studies have used incorrect statistical methods, were focussed on the United States and/or did not use non-cancer control search terms to provide a context for interpreting the effects seen with the cancer-related terms. Using more robust statistical methods we found that no cancer search terms were significantly, or strongly correlated with melanoma incidence in 6 countries.
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spelling pubmed-65502002019-07-12 Google searches do not correlate with melanoma incidence in majority English speaking countries McDonald, Laura Simpson, Alex Graham, Sophie Schultze, Anna Nordstrom, Beth Durani, Piyush Mehmud, Faisal Ramagopalan, Sreeram V. NPJ Digit Med Brief Communication Recent reports have suggested that internet search behaviour may be a valuable tool to estimate melanoma incidence and mortality. Previous studies have used incorrect statistical methods, were focussed on the United States and/or did not use non-cancer control search terms to provide a context for interpreting the effects seen with the cancer-related terms. Using more robust statistical methods we found that no cancer search terms were significantly, or strongly correlated with melanoma incidence in 6 countries. Nature Publishing Group UK 2018-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6550200/ /pubmed/31304324 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-018-0050-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Schultze, Anna
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Durani, Piyush
Mehmud, Faisal
Ramagopalan, Sreeram V.
Google searches do not correlate with melanoma incidence in majority English speaking countries
title Google searches do not correlate with melanoma incidence in majority English speaking countries
title_full Google searches do not correlate with melanoma incidence in majority English speaking countries
title_fullStr Google searches do not correlate with melanoma incidence in majority English speaking countries
title_full_unstemmed Google searches do not correlate with melanoma incidence in majority English speaking countries
title_short Google searches do not correlate with melanoma incidence in majority English speaking countries
title_sort google searches do not correlate with melanoma incidence in majority english speaking countries
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6550200/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31304324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41746-018-0050-4
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