A surgeon holds a syringe prior to administering chemotherapy on June 7, 2019. Many cancer patients in Myanmar are struggling through COVID-19-related income loss and travel restrictions to maintain vital chemotherapy treatments. (AFP)

‘A life-threatening combination’: Cancer patients miss out on treatment during pandemic

Lost income, transportation shutdowns, quarantine mandates and a general fear of the coronavirus are causing deadly disruptions to cancer patients’ treatment regimes – deaths that will not make the official pandemic statistics.

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