Detecting internet search activity for mouth cancer in Ireland

Mouth Cancer Awareness Day in Ireland was launched in September 2010 by survivors of the disease to promote public awareness of suspicious signs of oral cancer and to provide free dental examinations. To find out whether its introduction had increased public interest in the disease, we used Google Trends to find out how often users in Ireland had searched for “oral cancer” and “mouth cancer” across all Google domains between January 2005 and December 2013. The number of internet searches for these cancers has increased significantly (p

Source: The British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery - January 7, 2016 Category: ENT & OMF Authors: G. Murray, C. O’Rourke, J. Hogan, J.E. Fenton Source Type: research