Governments and donors should buy guaranteed working hours from radiotherapy vendors, with remote monitoring and regional spare-parts depots, instead of buying machines that then sit broken.
Radiotherapy machines in low- and middle-income countries are frequently non-operational for months awaiting a part or a visiting engineer. A regional shared-service model would bundle continuous remote diagnostics, an in-region spare-parts depot, and locally trained engineers into a multi-country service contract with penalties for downtime. Vendors already run remote monitoring in high-income markets; the change is contractual, not technical.
Shares Elekta, Varian (Siemens Healthineers), 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.
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 Elekta, Varian (Siemens Healthineers), 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, Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares Elekta, Varian (Siemens Healthineers), Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least.
Shares Elekta, Varian (Siemens Healthineers).
Shares Elekta, Varian (Siemens Healthineers), 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.