Every day eight women in New Zealand are told they have breast cancer, and two women die of breast cancer. Medical experts report widespread disruption of critical breast cancer research as COVID-19 lockdowns are shutting researchers out of their laboratories. This has forced them to destroy tissue samples and it's meant they can't collect new samples. Professor Andrew Shelling, head of Auckland University's Medical Genetics Research Group describes the impact lockdown has had in cancer research labs.
4 Nov 2021
