# OnCo record absolute-benefit (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/absolute-benefit/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "absolute-benefit" ;
  schema:name "Absolute versus relative benefit (number needed to treat)"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "absolute benefit"@en, "absolute risk reduction"@en, "absolute risk"@en, "absolute difference"@en, "absolute gain"@en, "percentage-point difference"@en, "percentage points"@en, "relative benefit"@en, "relative risk reduction"@en, "relative reduction"@en, "number needed to treat"@en, "NNT"@en, "number needed to harm"@en, "NNH"@en, "one in every"@en, "out of 100"@en, "per 100 patients"@en, "per 100 treated"@en, "how many patients benefit"@en, "baseline risk"@en, "risk difference"@en, "difference in medians"@en, "months gained"@en, "median gain"@en ;
  schema:description "A relative benefit says the risk fell by a third; an absolute benefit says how many people out of 100 were actually spared, which depends on how common the bad event was to begin with, and is the number that matters for deciding whether a treatment is worth its side effects."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/absolute-benefit/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-17"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_needed_to_treat> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_needed_to_treat>, <https://www.consort-statement.org/> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/hazard-ratio/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/hazard-ratio-basics/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/confidence-interval/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/median-survival/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/landmark-survival/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/kaplan-meier-curve/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/os/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/efs/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/drug-discovery/> ;
  onco:trials <https://onco.cc/trials/challenge/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/keynote-564/>, <https://onco.cc/trials/adaura/> .