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John Burn-Murdoch

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678 total appearances

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Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

Well, let's hope we do get there in that time frame.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

So thank you to Christopher for that question.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

One from Sam.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

What impact will the Trump administration have on the advance of medical science and what should the UK, and perhaps we could extend that to Europe, be doing in response?

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

Yeah, and I should just add there as well the comments you made about the Trump administration.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

Of course, again, they're not in the room with us.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

RFK is not here and they may have other things to say.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

But there is a follow-up question on a related point, which comes in from Patrick Leary, who asks about the role of wealthy supporters of Trump and their prominence in the medical business.

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Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

There's a name here that you'll be familiar with.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

You formerly were at the Ellison Institute, run by US tech giant Larry Ellison, who's doing a lot of interesting work in healthcare.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

Are there risks when politics and medical research seem to develop this close reliance?

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

Right.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

But I guess the broader question maybe is that when you have people like Ellison, who has a close relationship with Trump, you're exposing yourself to vulnerabilities.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

Those kind of decisions, those whiplashes from one to the other are more likely when there's that proximity between key figures in the two.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

We now have another question from Pritesh who asks, what are the short, medium and long-term scaling challenges here and how can the NHS itself mitigate them and get the best outcomes from this space?

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

And of course, when we're talking, I mean, anytime I think the words eliminate people come up, you're going to get a lot of pushback.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

And certainly, you know, there are different parts of the NHS that function at different productivity levels and that kind of thing.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

Would we not expect here, not so much a elimination of people, but just those same people doing far more?

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

So we get into a lot of this in the main episode and people can refer back to that.

Radical with Amol Rajan
How Close Are We to a Cure for Cancer? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Sir John Bell)

But I guess what we're specifically talking about here or a good example is AI's impact on imaging.