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449. How to Fix the Incentives in Cancer Research

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Cancer, the Second Leading Cause of Death in the World

In a given year, nearly ten million people around the world die from cancer. Today on freconomics radio, there are other reasons to be optimistic about cancer. There's this pace of progress like no other period in biomedical research for any disease. O k, if clinical trials aren't working, how do we fix them? That's coming up right after this....

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