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The Orchid Room and Cancer - with Hannah Fry

The Numberphile Podcast

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Is There a Number to Attach to a Cancer Treatment?

I think it's just ther you know, you are thrown into this world, and time is really of the essence. It's easy to attach numbers on how many years youou might live after this - but how do you attach a number to how easily you walk? I was in a pub with dave speager hutt ond who said that at the moment, the metric they use is your chance of living another ten years. Cutting it that way, it looks like you're better off having the kimo. But he thinks that if instead, you say, your chances of being alive at 15 years, actually cemotherapy damages your long term survival. And so i think it

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