Understanding terms & statistics
It is not unusual when we are reading or being given information about cancer for it to include statistics. Unless our work involves dealing with them, generally in our daily lives, we won’t have had to understand what they mean.
For most of us a cancer diagnosis means that we have to learn and take in a great deal of information as well as coping with it. It is not easy to gain an understanding of statistics at the same time.
In this section there are a number of “Question and answers” to help you understand some of the terms that may be used.
If you are looking for information about cancer statistics Cancer research UK have very detailed information about the incidence of cancer, all of their information about statistics is aimed at health professionals.
