As many as 160,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed every year in Ukraine. Health experts say continuing care for these patients, either in new countries or in their homeland, may pose a global health challenge.
Health experts say continuing care for these patients, either in new countries, or in their homeland, may pose a global health challenge.
Mercy Medical Center surgical oncologist, Vadim Gushchin, MD, was invited to Ukraine in 2012 before the war and met with leaders in Lugansk to discuss an American-led hospital there. He formed a bond with his Ukrainian counterparts. Gushchin said the Ukrainian doctors texted him when the invasion started. Patients and healthcare workers sheltered in hospital basements. Oncologists began to map out what procedures they could and couldn’t do.
Roads were blocked and infrastructure was broken, so, chemotherapy and radiation supplies became a deep concern. Some patients were evacuated.
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