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Cancer patients are calling on the government to step up as many struggle to pay for their own treatment as medication that could save or extend lives go unfunded.
Health professionals are warning backlogs due to lockdown are causing a rise in cancers that could've been detected months earlier. After two years of lockdowns, the Ministry of Health says the backlog for regular breast screening has risen to 50,000. And skin cancer specialists says they're already seeing an increase in patients with more severe cancer due to delayed appointments. Louise Ternouth reports.