Association Between Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Web-Based Data in China: Infodemiology Study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Cancer poses a serious threat to the health of Chinese people, resulting in a major challenge for public health work. Today, people can obtain relevant information from not only medical workers in hospitals, but also the internet in any place in real-time. Search behaviors can reflect a population's awareness of cancer from a completely new perspective, which could be driven by the underlying cancer epidemiology. However, such Web-retrieved data are not yet well validated or understood. OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to explore whether a correlation exists between the incidence and mortality of cancers and normalized internet search volumes on the big data platform, Baidu. We also assessed whether the distribution of people who searched for specific types of cancer differed by gende

SUBMITTER: Xu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6371071 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature