A British medical doctor predicts that up to 50,000 cancer patients could die from corona if they were not treated early enough.
Sikora, who works at Rutherford Health, is concerned that 2,300 cancer cases per week are currently undetected. “If this goes on for six months, I suspect there will be at least 50,000 cancer deaths in the coming years. That’s a daunting number,” the doctor told The Sun.
Do not neglect other diseases
“We usually diagnose about 30,000 people with cancer every month. But in April, there are probably less than 5,000. The reason for this is very simple: People have not been examined at all.”
The doctor warns against not neglecting other diseases in the corona crisis. Millions of lives are at risk, says Sikora. He even speaks of “the next public health disaster in the UK”.
