The Health Secretary claimed that it was “critical for everybody to understand the best way to keep cancer services running is to suppress the disease”. Mr Hancock told MPs that controlling the virus would allow the NHS to “recover the treatment that we need to for cancer and other killer diseases”. “We need to be accurate and precise and how we describe the impact of treating Covid patients on broader NHS services. Charity Breast Cancer now estimated 8,600 women could be living with undetected breast cancer as a result. Overall around 2.5 million people missed out on cancer screening, referrals or treatment at the height of lockdown.

Source: Daily Mirror October 06, 2020 18:58 UTC