Fighting cancer during Covid-19

THURSDAY will be World Cancer Day, which this year happens at a time when much of the world is focused on the coronavirus.

But hospices around South Africa continue to care for thousands of cancer patients.

The Hospice Palliative Care Association (HPCA) has 103 member hospices across the country that care for patients with life-threatening or terminal diseases, predominantly in the comfort of their own homes.

The HPCA was founded in 1987 and supports organisations that provide hospice services to more than 120000 people a year, the association said.

KwaZulu-Natal resident Ashika Soorju’s father was diagnosed with a very rare and aggressive type of bladder cancer last year.

“When you get a diagnosis, like my dad, he still felt fine and didn’t feel that he