Alone and exhausted, Kim Groom spent her last Christmas in a hospital bed, thinking of the gifts she had wrapped for her grandkids as they opened them at home without her.
Two months earlier, the 62-year-old had been diagnosed with terminal stage four stomach cancer - the news broken over the phone to her devastated family.
Weeks later, she passed away. Brave Kim is just one of the many cancer victims who have seen their hopes of survival dashed by the pandemic, which has seen the rate of early diagnoses drop by thousands.
The latest figures collected by Public Health England (PHE) show that while 18,400 people in England had their cancer diagnosed at stage one between March and June 2019, this plummeted to 12,400 in the same period last
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