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Online public interest in smoking and lung cancer: a comparative study in Google Trends

dc.contributor.coauthorTas, Faruk
dc.contributor.departmentSchool of Medicine
dc.contributor.kuauthorErtürk, Kayhan
dc.contributor.schoolcollegeinstituteSCHOOL OF MEDICINE
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-06T20:58:58Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractBackground:Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death globally. There is a causal relationship between smoking and lung cancer;nearly 90% of cases are caused by cigarette smoking.Aim:To investigate the public interest in the relationship between lung cancer and tobacco smoking through an analysis of searches in Google Trends over the past 16 years.Material and Methods:We conducted a systematic search through Google Trends using the search terms "lung cancer" and "smoking" to identify the numbers of lung cancer and tobacco smoking searches in populations from Turkey, the United States, and the whole world between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2019.Results:Online searches that reflect public awareness are nearly identical for both lung cancer and smoking;however, there is an inverse correlation between population interest and incidences of lung cancer and smoking. Furthermore, the numbers of searches on lung cancer and smoking decrease gradually in Turkey, in the world, and in the United States over the years, displaying a slight seasonal pattern.Conclusion:Informative and educational campaigns covering the whole year are required to raise awareness of the relationship between lung cancer and smoking and keep people argus-eyed.
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dc.description.indexedbyPubMed
dc.description.publisherscopeInternational
dc.description.sponsoredbyTubitakEuN/A
dc.identifier.doi10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_276_22
dc.identifier.eissn1998-4138
dc.identifier.issn0973-1482
dc.identifier.issuesupplement: 2
dc.identifier.quartileQ4
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85185838078
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_276_22
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14288/27599
dc.identifier.volume19
dc.identifier.wos1371557400020
dc.keywordsGoogle Trends
dc.keywordsLung cancer
dc.keywordsSearch
dc.keywordsSmoking
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWolters Kluwer Medknow Publications
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics
dc.subjectOncology
dc.titleOnline public interest in smoking and lung cancer: a comparative study in Google Trends
dc.typeJournal Article
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