Correlation among cancer incidence and mortality rates and internet searches in the United States

JAMA Dermatology

Volumn 153, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 911-914

  Wehner, Mackenzie R ^a   Nead, Kevin T ^a   Linos, Eleni ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MELANOMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CANCER; TREND STUDY; UNITED STATES; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION SEEKING; INTERNET; MORTALITY; NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION SEEKING BEHAVIOR; INTERNET; NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85029494114     PISSN: 21686068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2017.1870     Document Type: Article

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