Ian Olver from the University of South Australia explains the difference between "relative risk" and "absolute risk" when it comes to cancer in an article published today in The Conversation: It's all relative: how to understand cancer risk. Absolute risk is the risk of developing a cancer over a certain period of time. Relative risk is the risk one group of people has of developing a cancer compared to the risk of another group.
Reading this is a a good precursor to looking at the Interactive body map: what really gives you cancer? also published today in The Conversation. Here, authors Emil Jevaratnam and Sasha Petrova bring together evidence on proven cancer correlations. What are the risks of alcohol, red meat, sun exposure, obesity and so on, when it comes to increasing your likelihood of various cancers?
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