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449. How to Fix the Incentives in Cancer Research

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Cancer Research - Is Progress Slowing?

The death rate from all cancers in the u.S has declined roughly thirty per cent over the past three decades or so. In two thousand eighteen alone, the most recent year for which we have data, the decline was two point four per cent. This is all good news, but it's also a long, long way from nixon era hope that cancer was about to be cured in five years. But an aggregate, what's happening is really a amazing yu....

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