Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer
More or Less: Behind the Stats - A podcast by BBC Radio 4 - Saturdays
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British mathematics professor and broadcaster Hannah Fry has spent many years trying to explain the world through numbers. But when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer she embarked on a new mission – to discover whether the medical world, and we as individuals, make the right choices around treatment. Are patients always given the facts – and the time - they need to make rational decisions? And could we be at risk of unnecessary overtreatment?