It's all relative: how to understand cancer risk
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
Relative risk is your risk compared to that of someone else.Alan/Flickr, CC BYAbsolute 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.
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