Cancer patients could end up waiting two years to benefit from new research discoveries, it has been warned.
The Institute of Cancer Research, London said tightened restrictions in response to new coronavirus variants have limited laboratory research time, and slowed the race to find new cancer treatments.
It said at the start of the latest lockdown that the number of researchers able to access labs had fallen by almost 30% on top of restrictions that already existed before Christmas.
Scientists estimated advances in research for cancer patients would be put back by an average of 17 months following the first lockdown, but the ICR now fears the delay could be as much as two years.
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Cancer research ‘could be delayed by two years’ due to coronavirus pandemic
Updated: April 19, 2021, 12:45 am
Cancer patients could end up waiting two years to benefit from new research discoveries, it has been warned (David Davies/PA)
Cancer patients could end up waiting two years to benefit from new research discoveries, it has been warned.
The Institute of Cancer Research, London said tightened restrictions in response to new coronavirus variants have limited laboratory research time, and slowed the race to find new cancer treatments.
It said at the start of the latest lockdown that the number of researchers able to access labs had fallen by almost 30% on top of restrictions that already existed before Christmas.
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