{"id":16954,"date":"2021-09-27T15:30:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T02:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=16954"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:43:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T02:43:42","slug":"i-am-screwed-if-it-comes-back-experts-concerned-by-covids-hidden-impact-on-blood-cancer-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=16954","title":{"rendered":"‘I am screwed if it comes back’ Experts concerned by Covid’s hidden impact on blood cancer treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘I am screwed if it comes back’: Experts concerned by Covid’s hidden impact on blood cancer treatments<\/h1>\n

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Around 21,000 Kiwis are living with blood cancer. Symptoms can be difficult to recognise, and experts worry that some people aren\u2019t getting diagnosed as our health system tackles the impact of Covid-19. Hayley McLarin investigates.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Neil Brownlie has beaten blood cancer three times in a decade.<\/p>\n

The former electrician from Dunedin has overcome Hodgkin lymphoma, Burkitt lymphoma and acute myeloid lymphoma. Doctors tell him they haven\u2019t known any other patient to have three different blood cancers.<\/p>\n

But at 37, he\u2019s had so much chemotherapy he\u2019s been told he cannot afford to get cancer again, and his body won\u2019t withstand any more chemo.<\/p>\n

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