Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer

by Vinayak K Prasad and Vinayak K. Prasad

How hype, money, and bias can mislead the public into thinking that many worthless or unproven treatments are effective.

Each week, people read about new and exciting cancer drugs. Some of these drugs are truly transformative, offering major improvements in how long patients live or how they feel--but what is often missing from the popular narrative is that, far too often, these new drugs have marginal or minimal benefits. Some are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421437635
• ISBN13: 9781421437637
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

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Clean, haunting dive into [How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer]. Check out his podcast (youtube channel), very enlightening.