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Cancer nursing, COVID-19 and healthcare inequality
This year European Cancer Nursing Day ECND2020 on 18 May will be special because this is the World Health Organisation’s Year of the Nurse and Midwife; but also because it takes place in the midst of the current COVID-19 crisis.…
Delivering cancer care during the pandemic in Europe’s most overstretched health system
In a 2016 Voices post, Geta Roman wrote about the daily struggle to deliver timely and high-quality diagnostics and care in a health system with a per capita healthcare expenditure of only €400 a year ‒ the lowest of any…
COVID – are cancer patients being protected?
This is a particularly worrying time for people going through chemotherapy and other treatments that suppress the immune system. So what advice is being offered by oncology departments and what extra measures are being taken to keep their patients safe?…
A Global Licence for Breast Surgery – my call to action!
I am a two-time breast cancer survivor. My diseased breast, which had a triple-negative collision tumour, was partially removed and immediately reconstructed with autologous tissue followed by chemotherapy and radiation. Exactly five years later a recurrence was diagnosed and the…