Cancer survival rates will fall if coronavirus crisis causes delays to diagnosis and treatment

Cancer survival rates will fall if coronavirus crisis causes delays to diagnosis and treatment in coming months with tumours becoming ‘inoperable’, warns leading expert Professor Charles Swanton, Cancer Research UK chief clinician, issued warning Suggestion that surgeries, screenings and diagnoses are being delayed   In some cancers there is a 90% survival rate if the disease … Read more

Cancer survival rates will fall if coronavirus crisis causes delays to diagnosis and treatment

Cancer survival rates will fall if coronavirus crisis causes delays to diagnosis and treatment in coming months with tumours becoming ‘inoperable’, warns leading expert Professor Charles Swanton, Cancer Research UK chief clinician, issued warning Suggestion that surgeries, screenings and diagnoses are being delayed   In some cancers there is a 90% survival rate if the disease … Read more

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Banks not covering themselves in glory as we all struggle for survival

JEFF PRESTRIDGE: Banks are hardly covering themselves in glory as businesses and households struggle for survival – they MUST be working for us By Jeff Prestridge for The Mail on Sunday Published: 21:58 BST, 4 April 2020 | Updated: 21:58 BST, 4 April 2020 Our country’s banks, some rescued by us taxpayers in the 2008 … Read more

Only patients with ‘reasonable certainty’ of survival are put on ventilators at London hospital

Ventilator ‘rationing’ has begun in the UK as only patients with a ‘reasonable certainty’ of survival are to be put on the machines at a London hospital.  The UK coronavirus death toll has risen by 209 in 24 hours from 1,019 to 1,228, as infections jumped by 2,483 to 19,522.  Machines used to keep patients … Read more

Only patients with ‘reasonable certainty’ of survival are put on ventilators at London hospital

Ventilator ‘rationing’ has begun in the UK as only patients with a ‘reasonable certainty’ of survival are to be put on the machines at a London hospital.  The UK coronavirus death toll has risen by 209 in 24 hours from 1,019 to 1,228, as infections jumped by 2,483 to 19,522.  Machines used to keep patients … Read more

Boy, 17, missing in woodland for more than a week ‘is using his survival skills to self-isolate’ 

A teenage boy missing in woodland for more than a week could be using his survival skills to self-isolate after despairing when coronavirus cancelled his A-level exams. The police search for 17-year-old Oliver Strode has now entered its eighth day after he went missing while on a bike ride in Alice Holt Forest, Surrey. It … Read more

Boy, 17, missing in woodland for more than a week ‘is using his survival skills to self-isolate’ 

A teenage boy missing in woodland for more than a week could be using his survival skills to self-isolate after despairing when coronavirus cancelled his A-level exams. The police search for 17-year-old Oliver Strode has now entered its eighth day after he went missing while on a bike ride in Alice Holt Forest, Surrey. It … Read more

‘Bubble helmets’ being used by Italian doctors ‘boost survival rates’

What is the coronavirus?  A coronavirus is a type of virus which can cause illness in animals and people. Viruses break into cells inside their host and use them to reproduce itself and disrupt the body’s normal functions. Coronaviruses are named after the Latin word ‘corona’, which means crown, because they are encased by a … Read more

Germany beating the coronavirus survival odds: Country has 10,999 infections but just TWENTY deaths

Germany is currently beating the coronavirus survival odds despite being one of the nations hardest hit by the pandemic. The country has so far recorded nearly 11,000 cases of coronavirus but has only seen 20 deaths, putting the mortality rate at 0.18 per cent.  This is significantly lower than that of Italy (8.3 percent), China … Read more