Using Google trends data to study public interest in breast cancer screening in Brazil: Why not a pink February?

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Vasconcellos Silva, Paulo Roberto ^a,b   Carvalho, Dárlinton Barbosa Feres ^c   Trajano, Valéria ^a   de la Rocque, Lucia Rodriguez ^a,d   Braz Sawada, Anunciata Cristina Marins ^a   Juvanhol, Leidjaira Lopes ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO JOÃO DEL REI   (Brazil)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Cancer information seeking; Early detection of cancer; Health communication; Infodemiology; Infoveillance; Internet; Mass screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046579562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.7015     Document Type: Article

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