Summary
The way we treat cancer over the next few months will change enormously. Oncologists, will have to find a tenuous balance between under-treating people with cancer, resulting in more deaths from the disease in the medium to long term, and increasing deaths from Covid-19 in a vulnerable patient population.
Lucy Gossage, an oncologist, discusses in the Guardian the difficult decisions that will need to be made.
Coronavirus means difficult, life-changing decisions for me and my cancer patients
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/mar/19/cancer-patients-coronavirus-outbreak-difficult-decisions?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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