Processed meat and cancer – what you need to know¶
UK, C. R. (2015). Processed meat and cancer – what you need to know.
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- But because the baseline lifetime risk of bowel cancer is modest (around 6% in the relevant population), an 18% relative increase moves the absolute lifetime risk only to roughly 7% — a small change the relative figure hides.
This sourceReframes the relative bowel-cancer risk from processed meat in absolute terms, setting a roughly 6% lifetime baseline (61 per 1000) against about 6.6% (66 per 1000) for the heaviest consumers.
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“‘17 per cent’ sounds like a fairly big number – but this is a ‘relative’ risk, so let’s put it into perspective, and convert it to absolute numbers.”
- But because the baseline lifetime risk of bowel cancer is modest (around 6% in the relevant population), an 18% relative increase moves the absolute lifetime risk only to roughly 7% — a small change the relative figure hides.
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