Cancer crisis looms larger than Covid under lockdown.

The lockdown has caused a backlog of advanced cancer cases in the NHS, leading to longer waits and more suffering for patients. Cancer services in the UK need urgent reform, with a national assembly of oncologists, politicians, and logisticians required to debate and deliver fundamental changes. The NHS bureaucracy needs to be ditched, and more resources directed towards direct patient care. The explosion in serious cancers may have a more serious long-term effect than the virus itself.