{"id":10552,"date":"2020-10-19T11:33:15","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T08:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/?p=10552"},"modified":"2020-10-19T11:35:04","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T08:35:04","slug":"health-crisis-challenges-facing-cancer-patients-become-worse-and-more-complicated-during-the-pandemic-of-covid19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/2020\/10\/10552\/","title":{"rendered":"Health crisis: Challenges facing cancer patients, become worse and more complicated during the pandemic of COVID19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><u><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10553 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fact-sheet-For-Cancer-2020-COVID19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fact-sheet-For-Cancer-2020-COVID19.png 500w, https:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fact-sheet-For-Cancer-2020-COVID19-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/>Overview:<\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">It\u2019s not easy to be sick with cancer, and it\u2019s even more difficult in the Gaza Strip, which has been under siege for the past 14 years. More than two million people live in a place, known as the most high-density population over all the world, without a single radiation therapy unit or one PET-CT system; plus, other diagnostic means and cancer-fighting medications are in meager supply, too, and don\u2019t always meet the needs of those whose lives are at risk<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">In Gaza, monthly newly discover cases around (120-130) new cases, and the total cancer patients are (8326) distribution between male, female and pediatric, during the last five years (2014-2018)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Female, are the high percent (55%), male around (45%), breast cancer was the most common type (75%) of all cancer cases, and occupying first place among cancers of the female patients, Colon cancer was the most common type among males, representing (13.5%) of male cancers. In children, the most common cases of pediatric cancers were Leukemia (26.2%)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The most common cancer mortality in general population was Bronchus and Lung (16.9%), Colorectal (11%) and Breast (10%)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Fact-sheet-For-Cancer-2020-COVID19.pdf\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Download Paper<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcR2rW2zHGnBpC-2nI1sx4QLrMYHeVnaY3vYBw&amp;usqp=CAU\" alt=\"https:\/\/encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcR2rW2zHGnBpC-2nI1sx4QLrMYHeVnaY3vYBw&amp;usqp=CAU\" width=\"111\" height=\"129\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview: It\u2019s not easy to be sick with cancer, and it\u2019s even more difficult in the Gaza Strip, which has been under siege for the past 14 years. More than two million people live in a place, known as the most high-density population over all the world, without a single radiation therapy unit or one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10553,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[75,74,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-local-and-international-participation","category-publications"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Health crisis: Challenges facing cancer patients, become worse and more complicated during the pandemic of COVID19 - Pal-Think For Strategic Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/palthink.org\/en\/2020\/10\/10552\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Health crisis: Challenges facing cancer patients, become worse and more complicated during the pandemic of COVID19 - Pal-Think For Strategic Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Overview: It\u2019s not easy to be sick with cancer, and it\u2019s even more difficult in the Gaza Strip, which has been under siege for the past 14 years. 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