According to estimates of Dar es Salaam’s Ocean Road Cancer Institute (ORCI), Tanzania registers about 50,000 new cancer patients every year. However, ORCI, which is the largest cancer referral institution in the country, is only able to attend to 5,000 or 10% of the patients.
In Tanzania, there are few cancer treatment centers to serve the entire population of 55 million people. Unfortunately, not many can afford to cover long distances from all over the country to receive treatment, which can take weeks or months. And it’s not always easy to get cancer patients to keep coming back following initial on-the-scene diagnosis of oncology. Many don’t have the money to get to the hospital or stay for treatment.
With few medical facilities patients need to wait long time to clear out their diagnosis and receive timely treatment.For many of the patients who manage to receive treatment, their cancers have already metastasized to the point that administering palliative care becomes the only remaining option.
Such a tragic state of affairs can be considerably leveled down by increasing services of nuclear medicine and development of special centers of isotope production for local hospitals. Isotopes, nuclear particles, are used in scanning and treatment as they are able to detect and cure tumors at early stage. Globally more than 40 million procedures with nuclear isotopes are performed annually. Nuclear medicine proved to be very efficient in treating oncology and other serious diseases.
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