{"id":6025,"date":"2015-12-09T15:19:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=6025"},"modified":"2015-12-23T10:28:52","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T15:28:52","slug":"giving-context-to-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2015\/giving-context-to-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving Context to Cancer Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past several decades, the media has regularly bombarded us with news stories about cancer risk, as well as tools to help us assess the risk of developing a particular cancer. Telling us that factor x, y and z could increase our chances of getting cancer, but if we do a, b and exercise regularly our chances will decrease by fill-in-the blank percent. But are we really getting the big picture, or even an accurate picture, when it comes to cancer risk?<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to give the public a more broad-based view of cancer risk, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) collaborated with Dartmouth Institute researchers and physicians Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin to create the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourchances.cancer.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Know Your Chances<\/a>\u201d website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorically, NCI has only provided statistics about individual cancers,\u201d Woloshin says. \u201cThe new website is organized so it is easy to compare across cancers. And it is NCI\u2019s first major effort to provide statistics on non-cancer causes of death to help put the risk of death from various cancers in perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tdi.dartmouth.edu\/press\/updates\/giving-context-to-cancer-risk\" target=\"_blank\">Read more at TDI.Dartmouth.edu...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to give the public a more broad-based view of cancer risk, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) collaborated with Dartmouth Institute researchers and physicians Lisa Schwartz and Steven Woloshin to create the \u201cKnow Your Chances\u201d website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":6026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[19,517,116,446],"class_list":["post-6025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-cancer","tag-education","tag-lisa-schwartz","tag-steve-woloshin","author-25"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/Schwartz-Woloshin-web.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-1zb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6027,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6025\/revisions\/6027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}