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. 2016 Apr 28;2(1):e17. doi: 10.2196/publichealth.5205

Table 4.

Statistical significance of pairwise differences in cancer term usage between African Americans and Caucasians during each month of the study perioda.

Month Cancer term, t test
"Cancer" "Breast cancer" "Prostate cancer" "Colorectal cancer" "Lung cancer"
April 0.00003 0.053025 0.014894 0.025347 0.080356
May 0.008194 0.584394 0.122251 0.095581 0.510364
July 0.013599 <0.0001 0.006656 0.157299 0.890133
August <0.0001 0.001168 0.157209 0.312076 0.165111
September <0.0001 0.00007 0.017132 0.157299 0.013196
October <0.0001 <0.0001 0.242175 0.974206 0.000162
November <0.0001 <0.0001 0.027708 0.014306 0.000631
December 0.000266 0.000001 0.027575 0.317311 0.000067
January 0.241671 0.00945 0.1573 0.083265 0.91944

aEach user’s total term usage was calculated by summing the frequency with which cancer terms appeared in their timeline.