Breast Cancer Screening Participation and Internet Search Activity in a Japanese Population: Decade-Long Time-Series

Noriaki Takahashi1,2, Mutsuhiro Nakao3, Tomio Nakayama2

  • 11, Graduate School of Medicine, International University of Health and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan.

JMIR Cancer
|March 4, 2025
PubMed
Summary

Public interest in breast cancer screening in Japan, tracked via Google Trends, spiked due to celebrity diagnoses but did not significantly increase long-term screening participation rates. This highlights the need for effective public health messaging to drive sustained engagement in cancer screening.