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Dozens of countries have no radiotherapy machine at all. Combine long-term finance with a machine designed to be cheap, robust and maintainable where power and engineers are scarce.
Two linked efforts: a blended-finance facility (development banks, IAEA Rays of Hope, philanthropy) that finances radiotherapy centres including training and maintenance contracts over ten years rather than one-off machine donations; and an open engineering programme (following the CERN and STFC initiative for a linac for challenging environments) for a linear accelerator designed for unstable power, high ambient temperature, remote diagnostics and modular repair, manufactured at a fraction of current cost. The two must go together: machines without finance for staff and service become the idle equipment already common in low-income settings.
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Brachytherapy, Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care.
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Brachytherapy, Cervical cancer, Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Shares Brachytherapy, Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Cervical cancer.
Shares Brachytherapy, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Cervical cancer, Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Shares Brachytherapy, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam).
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Brachytherapy, Cervical cancer, Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam).
Shares Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Cervical cancer.