After ferrying her son to safety across the Hungarian border, Nataliia Verovkina has returned to Kyiv to resume treating cancer patients.
All scheduled cancer care across Ukraine has been stopped as more than 60 hospitals have been badly damaged in the course of Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian oncologists say.
The following list of resources is intended for clinicians, health professionals, patient advocates, and those aiding in the humanitarian effort.
The war in Ukraine is trapping cancer patients in their homes and forcing doctors to provide treatments in bomb shelters. Those patients who make it across the borders to nearby countries show up without medical records—or with records that need to be translated.
As a global cancer society, ASCO represents oncology professionals in Ukraine and its neighboring countries, including Poland, Romania, Moldova, Slovakia, and Hungary.
As we enter week three of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, events continue to spiral out of control.
In 1968, my country went to war. As Soviet tanks rolled toward Prague, newspapers described the invasion of Czechoslovakia as an act of “friendship.”
Nataliia Verovkina, a medical oncologist and research fellow at the National Cancer Institute of Ukraine, is now in the town of Vinnytsia, having travelled there from Kyiv to get her son away from the war zone.
Oleksandr Stakhovskyi, a urologist and oncologic surgeon at Ukraine’s National Cancer Institute, is staying in Kyiv to treat cancer patients as the Russian invasion continues.
On March 2, a bus filled with Ukrainian children was getting ready to leave Odesa for the border of Moldova, Ukraine’s closest neighbor.
