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How to treat and control cancer has been a major challenge since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Cancer services in many countries have been compromised, particularly in Europe where the World Health Organisation warns a cancer care crisis is brewing.

Professor Mark Lawlor, leads a special network on the impact of Covid-19 on cancer, run by the European Cancer Organisation. He says fear of catching Covid and a lack of available services put cancer care on a back-footing. On World Cancer Day he says: 鈥淲e can鈥檛 let Covid stop us from tackling cancer鈥�, warning that 鈥渢here may be as many as one million Europeans walking around with a cancer they don鈥檛 know they have鈥�.

(Picture: Senior woman wearing mask on hospital bed suffering cancer. Credit: Getty Images)