ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2018
What Do Germans Want to Know About Skin Cancer? A Nationwide Google Search Analysis From 2013 to 2017.
Article in Journal of medical Internet research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- Public Information Needs and Interest in Specific Food and Drug Allergy Disorders in Germany (2022-2024): Google Search Engine Analysis.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
- Global, regional, national prevalence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life-years of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma and trend analysis from 1990 to 2021 and prediction to 2045.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Exploring the Thoughts, Needs and Fears of Chemotherapy Patients-An Analysis Based on Google Search Behavior.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Cancer incidence and digital information seeking in Germany: a retrospective observational study.Scientific reports · 2024Observational
- "The chameleon among diseases" - an explorative view of sarcoidosis and identification of the consequences for affected patients and relatives using qualitative interviews.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2023Article
- Evaluating public interest in herpes zoster in Germany by leveraging the internet: a retrospective search data analysis.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Monitoring disease activity of pollen allergies: What crowdsourced data are telling us.The World Allergy Organization journal · 2022Article
- The national burden of scabies in Germany: a population-based approach using Internet search engine data.Infection · 2022Article
- [Atopic dermatitis-identifying needs in the German population by internet search queries].Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete · 2022Article
- [Web search data as health data? : Geographic differences, temporal trends, and topics of interest from internet search engine analyses in Germany].Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift fur Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete · 2022Review
- Leveraging internet search data to assess prevalence, interest, and unmet needs of sarcoidosis in Germany.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- A Google Trends™ Analysis of Bladder Cancer: Determining Awareness Campaign Success, and Patients' Needs in Clinical Management.Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2021Article
- Global, regional and national incidence, mortality and disability-adjusted life-years of skin cancers and trend analysis from 1990 to 2019: An analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019.Cancer medicine · 2021Article
- Google Trends in Dermatology: Scoping Review of the Literature.JMIR dermatology · 2021Article
- Googling for Ticks and Borreliosis in Germany: Nationwide Google Search Analysis From 2015 to 2018.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
- Infodemiology and Infoveillance: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
- 'Dr. Google, I have a stomach ache' - seasonal variations in abdominal pain: a 4-year retrospective data analysis from Google Ads keywords planner.Therapeutic advances in gastroenterology · 2020Article
- Quality and Accuracy of Information Available on Websites for Distracted Driving: Qualitative Analysis.Interactive journal of medical research · 2019Article
- Popularity of sleep disordered breathing in childhood: an analysis of worldwide search using Google Trends.Translational pediatrics · 2019Article
- Heartburn-Related Internet Searches and Trends of Interest across Six Western Countries: A Four-Year Retrospective Analysis Using Google Ads Keyword Planner.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundExperts worldwide agree that skin cancer is a global health issue, but only a few studies have reported on world populations' interest in skin cancer. Internet search data can reflect the interest of a population in different topics and thereby identify what the population wants to know.
objectiveOur aim was to assess the interest of the German population in nonmelanoma skin cancer and melanoma.
methodsGoogle AdWords Keyword Planner was used to identify search terms related to nonmelanoma skin cancer and melanoma in Germany from November 2013 to October 2017. The identified search terms were assessed descriptively using SPSS version 24.0. In addition, the search terms were qualitatively categorized.
resultsA total of 646 skin cancer-related search terms were identified with 19,849,230 Google searches in the period under review. The search terms with the highest search volume were "skin cancer" (n=2,388,500, 12.03%), "white skin cancer" (n=2,056,900, 10.36%), "basalioma" (n=907,000, 4.57%), and "melanoma" (n=717,800, 3.62%). The most searched localizations of nonmelanoma skin cancer were "nose" (n=93,370, 38.99%) and "face" (n=53,270, 22.24%), and the most searched of melanoma were "nails" (n=46,270, 70.61%) and "eye" (n=10,480, 15.99%). The skin cancer‒related category with the highest search volume was "forms of skin cancer" (n=10,162,540, 23.28%) followed by "skin alterations" (n=4,962,020, 11.36%).
conclusionsOur study provides insight into terms and fields of interest related to skin cancer relevant to the German population. Furthermore, temporal trends and courses are shown. This information could aid in the development and implementation of effective and sustainable awareness campaigns by developing information sources targeted to the population's broad interest or by implementing new Internet campaigns.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.