Cancer care in East Africa amidst the Covid‐19 pandemic

Even though we cannot rely on strong evidence due to limited testing capacities and sparse data, 9 but through our experience and the available data in East Africa, it seems that neither the previous nor the current wave of Covid-19 had posed such a thread in LMIC that would justify shutting down cancer (and other health) services on a large scale. 10 If this continues, I am afraid the cancer mortality will rise unnecessarily and efforts to strive against the massive public health burden of cancer in East Africa will be thrown back for many years.