Reporting on Cancer Research
Welcome to Reporting on Cancer Research, a Web site for science writers and the public with definitions of terms and brief overviews of how things work in the world of oncology research.
Explaining Study Findings
Tips from the Center for Medicine and the Media, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, developed by Steven Woloshin and Lisa M. Schwartz, Professsors of Medicine.
* Number glossary(absolute risk, relative risk)
* Statistics glossary (p values, confidence intervals, survival)
* Questions to guide reporting (e.g., how important are the outcomes?)
* How to highlight study cautions(useful phrases)
To learn more about these topics, see Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics, Steven Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz, H. Gilbert Welch, University of California Press, 2008.
More to come....
We will be adding to this Web page regularly. In the meantime, if you would like to suggest a term or topic, please write to jncimedia@oxfordjournals.org
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