Coronavirus means difficult, life-changing decisions for me and my cancer patients

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.