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There were to be seen less Chemo-and radiation therapy-treatments that have been faced during the epidemic

Cancer care in England , significant disruption during the pandemic, with large drops in numbers, the following urgent recommendations, the show of GPs, the figures.

The Number of people evaluated, by a cancer doctor, and within Two Weeks , a referral fell to 79,500, a decrease of 60% in April.

in the Meantime, patients to start the treatment this month fell to 10,800 - 20% below the numbers seen in April 2019.

The NHS said it had tried to protect services.

Nhs England said that A Number of innovative approaches have been introduced to keep cancer care run.

this includes the provision of more chemotherapy in the community and in the homes of the people, as well as the creation of "Covid-free -" wing in the hospital to protect the patients.

Nhs England chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens said staff had gone to provide "great efforts" to care for.

And he urged the people to come to us for treatment, amid concerns the fear of The Virus is the deterrence of people from the help.

impact on patients 'extremely concerned' cancer patients are not on appointments and treatments during the epidemic

But aid organisations warned of the disruption of services would have a devastating effect.

As well as a drop-in point and the treatment start, Cancer Research UK estimates that it will wait for a backlog of More Than two million people-screening in the whole of the UK.

thousands of patients have completed seen their current treatment.

Baroness Delyth Morgan, of breast cancer-Now, said her charity has been inundated with calls from people concerned about not getting treatment.

"It is extremely concerning," She Said .

Sara Bainbridge, head of policy at Macmillan Cancer Support, said cancer was in danger of becoming the "forgotten C pandemic. "

"My cancer has been stopped, the' Joanne Addis has seen that you have been diagnosed with stopped the treatment for breast cancer

Joanne Addis, 54, from Stockport, who with secondary breast cancer in the year 2017, just weeks after surgery for primary breast cancer.

she has to slow down to a drug called palbociclib since the cancer, but her treatment was stopped had to be in April, because it left her vulnerable to coronavirus.

"I was not happy. It has kept my cancer stable for three years. I try not to think of it, what is going to happen.

"There are a lot of people Like Me , who had to pause their cancer treatment, and not all of us have good results at The End of this.

"I only hope that The Risk of coronavirus falls low enough, as soon as I can restart my treatment. "

to provide such As the services adapted to the

In England and elsewhere in the United Kingdom were tried, for that matter - NHS-bosses, New Ways of cancer care.

"Covid-to allow-free" wings in the hospitals to be treated for cancer patients.

they were organized by the 21 cancer centres in England with lead-cancer-clinics to help coordinate care.

In London, for example, this has led to The Royal Marsden, to see the patients from the capital.

There is also a focus on the provision of care in the community and in the homes of people with "chemo - buses" in some places, to allow the staff to tour the city, share the chemotherapy out of the back of a converted van. has

The roll-out of a targeted form of radiation therapy has been rolled out, which requires fewer courses of treatment, the importance, to not visit patients, the hospital so often.

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Source of news: bbc.com