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Nishimura, Yoshito
Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Acoba, Jared D.
Department of Medicine, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawai’i
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抄録 | Simple Summary In this study, we quantified public awareness regarding breast cancer associated with Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) in October using Google Trends data and a joinpoint regression analysis. We analyzed the impact of BCAM, Lung Cancer Awareness Month (LCAM), and Prostate Cancer Awareness Month (PCAM) on public awareness of the top three most common cancers in the U.S. from 2012 to 2021 using the relative search volume of Google Trends. The results imply that BCAM has successfully improved the public awareness of breast cancer in the U.S., while LCAM and PCAM had no impact on the awareness of lung and prostate cancers. BCAM could serve as a good example for organizations working on health observances or awareness campaigns. Breast Cancer Awareness Month (BCAM) has a long history of over 30 years, established in 1985 to occur every October, and the National Breast Cancer Foundation now leads the operation. There have been no studies to evaluate the impact of the BCAM on public awareness of breast cancer. We analyzed the impact of BCAM on public awareness of breast cancer in the U.S. from 2012 to 2021 using the relative search volume (RSV) of Google Trends as a surrogate. We also analyzed the impact of Lung Cancer Awareness Month (LCAM) and Prostate Cancer Awareness Month (PCAM) on public awareness of lung and prostate cancer, respectively, to see differences in their effectiveness among the health observances for the top three most common cancers in the U.S. We performed a joinpoint regression analysis to identify statistically significant time points of a change in trend. There were joinpoints around BCAM for "Breast cancer" every year from 2012 to 2021, with a significant increase in the weekly RSVs from 21.9% to 46.7%. Except for 2013 and 2015 for "Lung cancer", when significant increases in the RSV at 1.8% and 1.2% per week were observed around LCAM, no joinpoints were noted around LCAM or PCAM. These results imply that BCAM has successfully improved the public awareness of breast cancer in the U.S. compared to other representative health observances, likely due to the effective involvement of non-medical industries, influencers affected by breast cancer, and an awareness symbol.
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キーワード | Breast Cancer Awareness Month
breast cancer
Google Trends
trend analysis
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発行日 | 2022-05-21
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出版物タイトル |
Cancers
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巻 | 14巻
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号 | 10号
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出版者 | MDPI
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開始ページ | 2534
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ISSN | 2072-6694
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学術雑誌論文
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英語
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岡山大学
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著作権者 | © 2022 by the authors.
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論文のバージョン | publisher
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関連URL | isVersionOf https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers14102534
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ライセンス | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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