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Kids cancer treatment disrupted at most hospitals worldwide due to COVID-19
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted cancer treatment for children globally, a new study has found. Photo by Semevent/Pixabay
March 3 (UPI) Care for children with cancer has been disrupted at nearly 80% of hospitals globally because of the pandemic, a survey published Wednesday by The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health found.
More than 40% of hospitals surveyed last summer reported that they had made fewer new cancer diagnoses than expected, and about one-third saw a rise in the number of pediatric cancer patients abandoning treatment, the data showed.
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Seven percent of the responding hospitals said they had closed their pediatric cancer units at some point during the pandemic.