Freakonomics Radio
Freakonomics Radio
Jan 27, 2021
449. How to Fix the Incentives in Cancer Research
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For all the progress made in fighting cancer, it still kills 10 million people a year, and some types remain especially hard to detect and treat. Pancreatic cancer, for instance, is nearly always fatal. A new clinical-trial platform could change that by aligning institutions that typically compete against one another.

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