Cancer patients in Gaza face a deteriorating treatment crisis
Destroyed facilities, drug shortages and travel restrictions are cutting off care.
Cancer patients across the Gaza Strip are facing a rapidly worsening medical crisis, driven by the destruction of specialised healthcare facilities, severe shortages of medicines and diagnostic supplies, and restrictions on medical travel.
Oncology depends on continuity: a treatment cycle interrupted partway is not simply delayed, it loses much of its effect.
Diagnostic shortages compound the problem, because treatment cannot be adjusted without imaging and laboratory work to measure how a disease is responding.