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Cancer backlog: Action Radiotherapy response

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Hippocratic Post

Action Radiotherapy calls for an urgent resolution to the cancer backlog caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. “A dramatic intervention from Government and the NHS is needed to prevent thousands of lives being unnecessarily lost to the cancer backlog resulting from the Covid response”, Chair of Action Radiotherapy Professor Pat Price says following BBC Breakfast TV […]

Cancer backlog will become a national emergency

Posted on June 4, 2020 by Professor Karol Sikora

Cancer backlog requires an emergency national response similar to the pandemic. The backlog of cancer cases due to Covid-19 will require an emergency national response similar to the response to Covid-19 itself to prevent a full-blown health crisis in the coming months, according to one of the UK’s top cancer experts and former head of […]