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As the Breast Cancer Awareness Month comes to an end, WHO statistics paint a grim picture on with an expected 60 per cent rise in cancer cases over the next two decades if the current trends continue.

The situation worsened with the Covid-19 pandemic and its double burden on cancer patients already immuno suppressed.  When the immune system is compromised, there is a greater risk for serious complications from viruses like Covid-19. This has exacerbated a strained oncology environment being weighed down by barriers to patients seeking cancer testing and/or treatment as well as to healthcare practitioners in delivering these services ultimately creating this perception that cancer is a death sentence, but is it really?

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