Stakeholders canvass improved brachytherapy treatment to check cancer | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

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Experts have urged for improved brachytherapy treatment to combat cancer in Nigeria, addressing challenges and constantly improving practices for better patient care.

They also charged practitioners to address prevailing challenges, including lack of awareness, limited access to resources, financial constraints and technological improvement.

Consultant Radiation and Clinical Oncologist and Head of Brachytherapy Unit, NLCC, Dr. Bolanle Adegboyega, urged improved technology in brachytherapy treatment. Earlier, Chief Executive Officer of NSIA Healthcare Development and Investment Company, Dr. Tolu Adewole, admitted inadequacy of equipment to speedily attend to the high number of cancer patients, even as the World Health Organisation recommended that for every one million people, there must be one linear accelerator in a country.

 

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