How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)
6/1/202620 min
The FT’s John Burn-Murdoch stands in for Amol, joined this week by the immunologist and geneticist Professor Sir John Bell. After talking about the radical change being ushered in by successive medical breakthroughs on the main podcast, Sir John takes your questions on implications of this profound change.
Will we see only wealthy people being able to benefit from these revolutionary treatments? What impact will the Trump administration have on the advance of medical science? And just how close are we to effectively curing cancer? * WhatsApp: 0330 123 9480 * Email: radical@bbc.co.uk Episodes of Radical with Amol Rajan are released every Monday and Thursday. Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made by Rufus Gray with Anna Budd and Oscar Pearson. Technical production was by Stephen Bailey. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.
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John Burn-Murdoch· Host0:34
[upbeat music] Hello, and welcome to Your Radical Questions, where I put your questions to one of our radical guests. This is your chance to engage directly with the brilliant minds that we have on this podcast and ask them about their ideas for the future. My name's John Burn-Murdoch, standing in for Amol this week. I'm a columnist and chief data reporter for the Financial Times. I've just finished up a brilliant conversation with Sir John Bell, who is Emeritus Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University. And if you haven't heard that conversation yet, I'd encourage you to go and listen. Professor Sir John has advised the UK government on life sciences, pharmaceutical strategy, and COVID testing, and played a pivotal role in the development of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic. He's currently a partner at Population Health Partners,