Abstract
Background: To create awareness about oral cancers, various events are being organized such as “oral cancer awareness month”. Google Trends is an application which is used to determine the relative frequency of a search term and is used for different purposes in the field of medicine, recently. The aim of this study is to determine the research popularity of terms about oral cancers using Google Trends and to investigate the relationship between various awareness events. 
 Material and Methods: Search Volume Indexes for terms “oral cancer” and “mouth cancer” for the USA, United Kingdom, and worldwide were obtained from Google Trends. Also, for Turkey “ağız kanseri”, “dil kanseri”, “dudak kanseri” and “damak kanseri” terms were used. Average search volume indexes of all terms for April, September and November,which are declared as oral cancer awareness months by different societies, were calculated.
 Results: For terms, “mouth cancer” and “oral cancer”, November averages in the United Kingdom and April averages in the USA were higher compared to all months (p
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