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Instead of one overwhelmed national cancer hospital, organise care in tiers: district hospitals diagnose and give simple treatment, regional centres give chemotherapy and surgery, and the hub handles radiotherapy and complex cases.
Low- and middle-income countries often have a single national cancer institute that patients travel days to reach, with everything else undefined. Formal networks with tiered service specifications, referral criteria, shared protocols, and a common minimum dataset (the Tata Memorial National Cancer Grid in India is the largest example) spread capacity, shorten travel, and make quality auditable. The design choices are which services sit at which tier and how the money follows the patient.
Shares Tata Memorial Centre, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Tata Memorial Centre, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Tata Memorial Centre, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Fragmented care and guideline gaps, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Fragmented care and guideline gaps, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Tata Memorial Centre, Fragmented care and guideline gaps, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Tata Memorial Centre, Fragmented care and guideline gaps, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Tata Memorial Centre, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.