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How the coronavirus pandemic is impacting those with cancer

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The novel coronavirus pandemic has upended Canadians’ lives in recent weeks, and it has hit those who already relied on the health-care system especially hard.

Nalie Agustin, a Stage 4 terminal breast cancer patient who calls herself a “cancer thriver,” told Global News Morning that the challenges the pandemic presents can be especially daunting for people living with cancer. “First, there was one beast called cancer, and now, there’s two beasts that we have to slay,” she told Global’s Laura Casella. “So it’s extra anxiety, fear and uncertainty.” Much of Agustin’s treatment is continuing as normal, but there are already some changes due to concerns surrounding COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

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