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“The system is going to implode”: Cancer treatment backlogs grow after Charlotte Maxeke fire

“The system is going to implode”: Cancer treatment backlogs grow after Charlotte Maxeke fire

By Laura Lopez Gonzalez, May 21, 2021
Posted in: Latest

Four years ago, the virtual collapse of cancer services in KwaZulu-Natal saw some desperate patients move to Gauteng for care. Now, a new crisis is again prompting those who can, to relocate for treatment. Laura Lopez Gonzalez reports.

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COVID-19: Childhood cancer care in SA’s large centres ‘relatively unaffected’

COVID-19: Childhood cancer care in SA’s large centres ‘relatively unaffected’

By Kathryn Cleary, March 15, 2021
Posted in: COVID-19

More than three quarters of 200 hospitals surveyed from across the globe report that their paediatric cancer care services had been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a study published in the Lancet medical journal. Yet, some large centres in South Africa appear to have been relatively unaffected. Kathryn Cleary reports.

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