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Cervical cancer cannot be cured by external radiotherapy alone; it needs brachytherapy, internal radiation that LMIC radiotherapy centres frequently lack or cannot keep running because iridium-192 sources must be replaced every three months. Cobalt-60 sources last about five years and give equivalent doses, so funding cobalt units for every regional centre closes a well-understood cure gap.
Brachytherapy is essential for curative cervical cancer treatment, yet LMIC radiotherapy centres frequently have none, or have units whose iridium-192 sources cannot be replaced every three months for cost and logistics reasons. Cobalt-60 HDR sources last about five years and are dosimetrically equivalent for cervix. A programme to fund cobalt HDR units, standardise applicators and image-guided planning, and train teams would close a specific and well-understood cure gap.
Shares Radiotherapy roadmap: X-rays → shaped beams → fewer fractions, particles and FLASH, Global access and affordability roadmap: essential medicines and generics → biosimilars and frugal trials → reliance, pooling and homegrown innovation, Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Cervical cancer.
Shares Radiotherapy roadmap: X-rays → shaped beams → fewer fractions, particles and FLASH, Global access and affordability roadmap: essential medicines and generics → biosimilars and frugal trials → reliance, pooling and homegrown innovation, Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Radiotherapy roadmap: X-rays → shaped beams → fewer fractions, particles and FLASH, Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Radiotherapy roadmap: X-rays → shaped beams → fewer fractions, particles and FLASH, Global access and affordability roadmap: essential medicines and generics → biosimilars and frugal trials → reliance, pooling and homegrown innovation, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Radiotherapy roadmap: X-rays → shaped beams → fewer fractions, particles and FLASH, Global access and affordability roadmap: essential medicines and generics → biosimilars and frugal trials → reliance, pooling and homegrown innovation, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Radiotherapy roadmap: X-rays → shaped beams → fewer fractions, particles and FLASH, Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Brachytherapy, Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Cervical cancer.