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authors: Henke, Oliver
title: Cancer care in East Africa amidst the Covid‐19 pandemic
date: 2021-04-28
journal: Int J Cancer
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.33611
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doc_id: 795297
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the hospitals and reduced screening services have already and will continue to lead to more advanced stage cancer disease and, eventually, reduced survival in many cancer patients. While this has been extensively discussed publicly, in academia and within professional organizations in high-income countries 1,2 little light has been shed on the recent situation of cancer care in low-and-middle-income countries (LMIC).

As an oncologist practising since many years in Tanzania, I would like to draw attention to the situation in East Africa, where the public health strategies in response to the pandemic differ among the biggest countries.

Uganda has imposed strict lockdowns and even curfews throughout the country to fight the pandemic that has cost 337 reported And lastly, more research on Covid-19 related impact on the generally much younger population in LMIC is utterly needed to fully understand the impact it causes.

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