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The Spreadsheet of Life and Death
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
The Cancer Drugs Fund
Over six years, the cancer drugs fund bought drugs for almost a hundred thousand cancer patients in 20 17. Researches looked at how effective it had been and found that four fifths of the drugs it bought had no clinical benefit at all. Professor richard sullivan said the fund had been a major policy error and a huge waste of money. Cautionary tales is written and presented by me, tim harford, with help from andrew wright.
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