Are we all Spaniards equal to cancer?

MADRID

Updated:02/02/2021 01:24h

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Cancer is the same for everyone, but we are not all the same when it comes to cancer. This statement, which may be surprising to some, is a reality experienced by thousands of cancer patients and their families every day.

The pandemic caused by the coronavirus is not responsible for this situation. What has caused COVID19 has been a worsening of the reality of this silent pandemic that is cancer: during the confinement of the first wave, the number of cancer diagnoses fell by 21%, or in other words, 1 in 5 patients, were not diagnosed or were diagnosed late.

We are already in the third wave and we have no evidence that this situation is