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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. The ...
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Early statin therapy may lower risk for dementia in people with diabetes

Statin initiation after a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes was associated with lower absolute and relative risk for all-cause dementia compared with no statin initiation, a speaker reported. The effect ...
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Is Relative Risk Reduction a Useful Measure for Patients or Families Who Must Choose a Method of Treatment?

IN THIS issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Chao et al 1 report the results of a study that examined the impact of using four different risk/benefit measures when communicating survival ...
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VERIFY: The two ways to calculate how much your risk is reduced by getting the COVID vaccines

WASHINGTON — By now we've all heard that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has an efficacy rate of 95%, Moderna of 94%, and Johnson & Johnson about 66%; what you may not have known is that rate's technical ...
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VERIFY: The two ways to calculate how much your risk is reduced by getting the COVID vaccines

WASHINGTON — By now we've all heard that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has an efficacy rate of 95%, Moderna of 94%, and Johnson & Johnson about 66%; what you may not have known is that rate's technical ...