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Cancer Care / IAEA Launches Drive To Tackle Severe Capacity Shortage, Starting In Africa

By David Dalton
7 February 2022

Initiative aims to mobilise financial resources and galvanise political will
IAEA Launches Drive To Tackle Severe Capacity Shortage, Starting In Africa
A positron emission tomography (Pet) scan uses low-dose radiation to check the activity of cells in different parts of the body. Courtesy Wikipedia Commons.
The International Atomic Energy Agency has launched a plan to tackle a severe shortage of cancer care capacity in many countries, with an initial focus on Africa where people often die from the disease because they lack access to potentially life-saving nuclear medicine and radiotherapy.

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