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A month delay to cancer care might raise death risk: study

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The scary thing about Canada, my country, where this survey looked, are long wait periods for patients for surgery, usually months. For cancer, it averages over a month.

In Japan, I'm in and out of a clinic in an hour, without an appointment. My friends in Canada tell me they wait several hours. The system can't keep with the rapid population growth, especially in the cities. What's really scary is policymakers are vowing to inflate the population at an even higher rate. That will really put a strain on public health. No such problems in Japan, thank goodness!

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A lot of people think that cancer is a slowly progressing disease that let patients and doctors plenty of time to consider options for treatment and their advantages, this is not true. Doctors usually pressure the patients to decide and undergo treatment as soon as is possible, because even a day of delay may lower the chances of recovery.

This is part of the reasons why is so important to control the pandemic and the number of cases, so hospitals can remain free and patients can deal with every other health problems without worrying about getting infected. The pandemic can cause death rates to increase also indirectly because of delayed treatment or even immunizations, that can cause outbreaks of other serious diseases.

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