A woman has been left in so much pain due to her cancer treatment she can no longer leave the house.
Sophie Mulligan, 24, was given the devastating news her acute lymphoblastic leukaemia had returned for a third time, at the start of the pandemic, last year.
Her white blood cells even had to be flown to America for treatment.
Normally, the process for cells would take around four weeks, but the Covid-19 backlog meant Sophie had to wait longer.
Sophie, not only had to deal with painful joints as a result of previous treatment but also the worry her cancer might have spread in those extra weeks.
She said: "I saw people moaning about trivial things, like not being able to go out and see friends or go to the pub.
"And I'm thinking, this is a life or death situation for me, that is totally different."
With all the treatments she's had over the years, she has developed a condition called avascular necrosis - which is the death of bone tissue.
Her joints have been left damaged, meaning she lives in a lot of pain and is facing a long wait for surgery.
Sophie told Newsbeat: "It affects my hip joints, shoulder joints, elbow and wrist.
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"It means that I am very restricted in mobility, I suffer from horrendous pain and it affects my day-to-day life."
The pandemic means that there's a long wait for the surgery, and instead, Sophie is having to manage with painkillers and not leaving her house.
An recent investigation by BBC Radio 1's Newsbeat revealed how a group of 47 of the UK’s major cancer charities are warning that unless the government provides the NHS with more finances and staff to clear the backlog, the cancer death rate will rise in this country for the first time in decades.
Michelle Mitchell, CEO of Cancer Research UK, and spokesperson for newly-formed One Cancer Voice said: “We’re very worried that if you’re diagnosed later, your survival prospects are lower, so we could face in this country today, the prospect of cancer survival reducing for the first time in decades.
"That’s why urgent action is required by the government.”
The cancer charities say 41,000 patients had their cancer care impacted during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Sophie is now in remission from leukaemia.
While lots of people Sophie's age will be thinking about the country emerging from lockdown, she just wants to be pain-free.
She added: "I'm more bothered about going back into hospital to have surgery so that I can live some form of a normal life again."
Sophie was studying for a degree in Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University when she first fell ill with a cold back in May 2015.
She initially put it down to partying too hard at first but when the whites of her eyes started turning yellow she knew it was something more serious.
A few weeks later, she was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia and she had no choice but to drop out of university.
Since then, Sophie has undergone intensive chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant.
Michelle Mitchell added: “Covid has devastated tests, treatments for cancer, and what we estimate today is that 41,000 people would have been treated in 2020, who haven’t been treated this year, because of Covid.
“We’ve seen tests paused, 3 million people didn’t come through for screenings during Covid.
"We have also seen over 40,000 people haven’t had the treatments that they would’ve expected to have in a normal year.
"And many more have had their treatments postponed or changed.
"We want to see the backlog of 41,000 people found and treated.”
Due to restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Sophie had to undergo treatment at the Christie Hospital in Manchester alone, miles away from home.
