Coronavirus 'obsession' could cost 30,000 cancer patients' lives, expert claims
dailystar.co.ukNHS diverted resources and even called up retired staff to manage the crisis. But, says leading cancer specialist Professor Karol Sikora, that response has had a deadly cost.
He claims the shift of focus on Covid-19 has undoubtedly caused the deaths of many cancer patients that might otherwise have been saved. “Some estimates say a few thousand cancer patient lives could be lost,” he said, “I think you can easily multiply that by ten, it’s far worse than people appreciate.”Meanwhile, he disputes the official Covid-19 death toll, saying: “I don’t believe it’s as high as 41,000” Professor Sikora told The Times : “We have almost certainly caused the death of something like 30,000 patients.” He believes that tens of thousands of cancer patients.
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