Effects of Public Disclosure of a Japanese Celebrity's Oral Cancer: Trends in Oral Cancer Diagnoses.

IF 2.9 3区医学 Q1 DENTISTRY, ORAL SURGERY & MEDICINE

Oral diseases Pub Date : 2025-05-15 DOI:10.1111/odi.15367

Shihoko Koyama, Takahiro Tabuchi, Kayo Nakata, Toshitaka Morishima, Shuji Uchida, Miki Ishibashi, Isao Miyashiro

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Abstract

Objective: On February 19, 2019, Chiemi Hori, a renowned Japanese singer, publicly announced her diagnosis of stage IV tongue cancer. The news was widely reported by the Japanese media. This study examined the association between the celebrity's tongue cancer disclosure and trends in the number of oral cancer diagnoses in the national population-based cancer registry (NCR) in Japan.

Methods: Data from the NCR were used to plot monthly changes in the number of oral cancer diagnoses from 2016 to 2019 according to sex, age, residential area (divided into five categories based on the density of dentists), cancer site, and clinical stage at initial treatment. Time trends were analyzed using Joinpoint regression.

Results: Between 2016 and 2019, 39,415 oral cancer cases were registered. After Ms. Hori's disclosure, oral cancer diagnoses increased significantly, while other head and neck cancers showed no significant changes. The number of oral cancer diagnoses increased from 784 in January 2019 to 1195 in March 2019 (an average monthly change rate of 8.6% from December 2018 to March 2019).

Conclusions: There has been a sharp increase in the number of oral cancer diagnoses since the celebrity's disclosure. This suggests that it has raised public awareness of oral cancer.

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公开披露日本名人口腔癌的影响：口腔癌诊断的趋势。

目的：2019年2月19日，日本著名歌手堀井千美公开宣布自己被诊断为舌癌IV期。这一消息被日本媒体广泛报道。这项研究调查了这位名人的舌癌披露与日本国家人口癌症登记处（NCR）口腔癌诊断数量趋势之间的关系。方法：利用NCR的数据，绘制2016 - 2019年按性别、年龄、居住地（根据牙医密度分为五类）、癌症部位和初始治疗临床阶段的口腔癌诊断数量的月度变化。采用关节点回归分析时间趋势。结果：2016年至2019年，共登记了39,415例口腔癌病例。在堀井女士披露了这一信息后，口腔癌的诊断率显著上升，而其他头颈部癌症的诊断率则没有明显变化。口腔癌诊断数量从2019年1月的784例增加到2019年3月的1195例（2018年12月至2019年3月的平均月变化率为8.6%）。结论：自名人披露口腔癌以来，口腔癌的诊断数量急剧增加。这表明它提高了公众对口腔癌的认识。

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Oral diseases 医学-牙科与口腔外科

CiteScore

7.60

自引率

5.30%

发文量

325

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： Oral Diseases is a multidisciplinary and international journal with a focus on head and neck disorders, edited by leaders in the field, Professor Giovanni Lodi (Editor-in-Chief, Milan, Italy), Professor Stefano Petti (Deputy Editor, Rome, Italy) and Associate Professor Gulshan Sunavala-Dossabhoy (Deputy Editor, Shreveport, LA, USA). The journal is pre-eminent in oral medicine. Oral Diseases specifically strives to link often-isolated areas of dentistry and medicine through broad-based scholarship that includes well-designed and controlled clinical research, analytical epidemiology, and the translation of basic science in pre-clinical studies. The journal typically publishes articles relevant to many related medical specialties including especially dermatology, gastroenterology, hematology, immunology, infectious diseases, neuropsychiatry, oncology and otolaryngology. The essential requirement is that all submitted research is hypothesis-driven, with significant positive and negative results both welcomed. Equal publication emphasis is placed on etiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prevention and treatment.