Doctors lay bare the pandemic's consequences for cancer services

Cancer doctors want urgent action to address the major issues that services are encountering and which are causing huge anxiety and anguish for patients. File picture: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Screening and testing delays to diagnose cancers, lengthening waiting lists, and increasing exhaustion amongst staff and patients are being flagged as just some of the impacts the pandemic is having on cancer services.

Cancer doctors want urgent action to address the major issues that services are encountering and which are causing huge anxiety and anguish for patients.