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Cancer & Cardiovascular Disease: Lessons from Covid-19

Cancer & Cardiovascular Disease: Lessons from Covid-19

Cancer and cardiovascular (CV) disease kill more people every year than any other illness, including Covid-19.

16.11.21

This article is not about how many people died from each disease; rather, it’s about the positive impact that could be made if we enacted the same approach to the two greatest killers, cancer and CV disease, as we’ve done with Covid-19.

Drawing on data from Ipsos’ Global Oncology Monitor and other sources, Jackie Ilacqua considers how we could, and should, take learnings from the Covid-19 pandemic and apply them to other preventable, or at least treatable, diseases.

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Jackie Ilacqua

Healthcare, US

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