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Radiation Oncology • Global Health
Do radiation oncology missions to developing countries actually provide a means for sustainable cancer care?
Some people have compared medical missions to "placing a band-aid on a severed limb." How do radiation oncology missions go beyond the band-aid approach?
Answer from: Radiation Oncologist at Academic Institution
The cancer burden is large and growing in developing countries. In many parts of the world, cancer awareness is low and currently available infrastructure is insufficient to support the growing burden of cancer. For many years, cancer was thought to be a disease of affluent countries. Wi...
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