Hannah Fry: Understanding the numbers of cancer

Published: June 11, 2022, 5 a.m.

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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 \\u2013 to discover whether the medical world, and we as individuals, make the right choices around treatment. Are patients always given the facts \\u2013 and the time - they need to make rational decisions? And could we be at risk of unnecessary overtreatment?

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