IJERPH, Vol. 20, Pages 2106: Using Google Trends and Wikipedia to Investigate the Global Public & rsquo;s Interest in the Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis of a Celebrity

IJERPH, Vol. 20, Pages 2106: Using Google Trends and Wikipedia to Investigate the Global Public’s Interest in the Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis of a Celebrity International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph20032106 Authors: Vincenza Gianfredi Daniele Nucci Mariateresa Nardi Omar Enzo Santangelo Sandro Provenzano A cross-sectional study was designed to assess the impact of a celebrity’s announcement of having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on the volume of cancer-related research on the Internet. Global searches were carried out on Google Trends (GT) for the period from 1 January 2004 to 20 November 2022 (since data prior to 2004 were not available) using the search words Tumore del Pancreas (pancreatic cancer), Tumore neuroendocrino (neuroendocrine tumor), and Fedez (the name of a popular Italian rapper). The frequency of specific page views for Fedez, Tumore del pancreas, and Tumore neuroendocrino was collected via Wikipedia Trends data. Statistical analyses were carried out using the Pearson correlation coefficient (r). The GT data revealed a strong correlation (r = 0.83) while the Wikipedia Trends data indicated a moderate correlation (r = 0.37) for Tumore neuroendocrino and Tumore del pancreas. The search peaks for the GT and Wikipedia pages occur during the same time period. An association was found between the celebrity’s announcement of his pancreatic cancer diagnosis and t...
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