The body, by the numbers
Organs, bones, injuries, teeth and chromosomes, coloured by real data: which cancers people survive, which bones break on the stairs, which teeth we lose first. And a daily game to test how well you know your own body.
📊 Body ShadeOne organ, bone, tooth or chromosome is missing from the chart. Where does it rank? Three rounds a day across the body.
🫀 Explore the bodyAll 64 charts: organs, bones, injuries, teeth and chromosomes. Tap any part for its number.
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Which cancers do people survive?Five years on, 98% for the thyroid, 14% for the pancreas.
Which teeth do we lose?Wisdom teeth aside, the lower first molars go first.
Which bones break on the stairs?From US emergency rooms: where a fall down the stairs lands.
Which organs get transplanted?Kidneys, more than every other organ put together.
When do we break which bone?Every broken bone in a year of US emergency rooms, by age.
Data: US National Cancer Institute (SEER), the US transplant registry (OPTN/SRTR), ICRP Publication 89, the US national dental exam (NHANES), US emergency-room injuries (NEISS), UCSC, HGNC and ClinVar for the genome, and Wikipedia. Each chart names its source.