Using online search activity for earlier detection of gynaecological malignancy.

"code availability code will be made available at: https://github com/eladyt/gynaecologicalcancer after publication."

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateInstitutional review board approval was granted in May 2020, by the North of Scotland ethics committee (REC approval 20/NS/0063). All patients signed informed consent to participate in the study. The filtered Google takeout files were pseudo-anonymised, and the original Google takeout file (non-filtered) was deleted. Data was processed in line with GDPR regulations. Permission was granted to utilise Bing data by the Microsoft Ethics Review Board (approval number 10532). Consent for publicationNot applicable. Competing interestsE.Y–T is employed by Microsoft, the owner of Bing the search engine, he has no other conflicts of interest to declare. J.B, L.B.E, S.S, D.G, V.L, V.P.L, T.B, I.J.C have no financial, personal, intellectual, and professional conflicts of interest to declare. Competing interests E.Y–T is employed by Microsoft, the owner of Bing the search engine, he has no other conflicts of interest to declare. J.B, L.B.E, S.S, D.G, V.L, V.P.L, T.B, I.J.C have no financial, personal, intellectual, and professional conflicts of interest to declare."

"Funding This work was supported by Imperial Health Charity (RFPR2122_13). The funder played no role in study design, data collection, analysis and interpretation of data, or the writing of this manuscript."