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.