I, more than most, understand the desperate need to treat those with active cancer who may have deferred due to COVID, but please also remember the other "elective" tx cancelled. Elective is not a "nice to have", it includes 1/3
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...surgery 2 relieve pain, improve mvmnt, revise SE.
Watch out 4 weasel words in announcements abt plans 2 clear backlog: prioritising "Pts w *active* cancer"; "pts on *curative* pathway" etc. which ignore imp. #Cancer pt numbers. 2/3
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And what breaks my heart even more? That the hard-won right of #BreastCancer pts to choose recon /flat abandoned in COVID scramble. Mx or nothing.
Never again can general hosp.s be prevented from performing #Cancer services. 3/3
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