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Google search volume trends for cancer screening terms during the COVID-19 pandemic

Published:2021-03-04 Issue:2 Volume:28 Page:210-212
ISSN:0969-1413
Container-title:Journal of Medical Screening
language:en
Short-container-title:J Med Screen

Author:

Snyder Austin¹,Jang Sean²,Nazari Ilana S³,Som Avik⁴,Flores Efren J¹⁴^ORCID,Succi Marc D¹⁴⁵,Little Brent P¹⁴^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

2. Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

4. Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

5. Medically Engineered Solutions in Healthcare Incubator, Innovation in Operations Research Center (MESH IO), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to delays in cancer diagnosis, in part due to postponement of cancer screening. We used Google Trends data to assess public attention to cancer screening during the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Search volume for terms related to established cancer screening tests (“colonoscopy,” “mammogram,” “lung cancer screening,” and “pap smear”) showed a marked decrease of up to 76% compared to the pre-pandemic period, a significantly greater drop than for search volume for terms denoting common chronic diseases. Maintaining awareness of cancer screening during future public health crises may decrease delays in cancer diagnosis.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Health Policy

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0969141321999426

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