Gaza's breast cancer patients face a deadly wait for treatment amid Israel's genocide

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With radiotherapy unavailable and medical evacuations restricted, thousands of Palestinian women face delays due to hospital destruction and severe drug shortages After six hours of cancer treatment at Gaza City’s partly destroyed al-Shifa Hospital, Najat Abu al-Sheikh waits with her husband outside for a ride home. But the treatment the 46-year-old Palestinian needs to survive is still out of reach. Radiotherapy, which she should have received in February, is unavailable in the war-ravaged encl