UK will face a deluge of cancer cases as the pandemic eases

The UK will have to use €˜everything it has got’ to deal with a €˜deluge’ of cancer patients as the Covid-19 pandemic eases, according to Professor Karol Sikora, chief medical officer at Rutherford Health. Professor Sikora warned of a surge in cancer patients and the impact it will have on the healthcare sector as he spoke today to more than 100 health, care and local government personnel in a webinar organised by Public Policy Projects. Professor Sikora said: €œIn the month of April we would have expected around 25,000 people to present with cancer symptoms in the UK. There were