Scary statistics show how many people die from cancer and K-19

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Scary statistics show how many people die from cancer and K-19
Scary statistics show how many people die from cancer and K-19
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Experts warn that the coronavirus pandemic, which disrupts the usual regime of medical care, will lead to catastrophic cumulative damage. Cancer patients will suffer first

In England today, 12 times more people are dying from cancer than from COVID-19. On average, the coronavirus kills 36 people in England and Wales every day. Those were the stats for the last week. Moreover, in mid-January this sad figure reached 1280 people. By comparison, cancer kills 450 people every day in England and Wales and 166,000 every year.

According to experts, if the state medical facilities do not urgently resume the usual provision of medical care to the country's residents, then thousands of people will die of tumors, which will be the result of the cumulative damage due to the pandemic.

Professor Carol Sikora of Rutherford Cancer Center said that on average 1,000 people in the UK develop cancer every day, meaning they learn of their diagnosis after a hospital examination.

But when the coronavirus pandemic reached its peak, that figure plummeted. This is not because people suddenly become less likely to get cancer, but because it is much less likely to be diagnosed. The later a malignant tumor is detected in the body, the greater the probability that a person will not survive this disease, writes The Daily Mail.

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