You are employed at a cancer treatment, which reported the following data on deaths due to malignancies, by sex for the past 20 years. As a health care analyst, you need to determine measures of risk for death due to malignancies based on sex.
a. Calculate the risk of death due to malignancy among men relative to women.
b. What can you conclude from these results about the odds of dying from a malignancy in men compared to women?
Death Due to Malignancies
Sex | Yes | No | Total |
Men | 7,153 | 21,507 |
28,660 |
Women | 6,565 | 28,890 | 35,455 |
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