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Indiana University Center for Global Health and the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center (IUSCCC) are seeking a BC/BE subspecialist in Medical Oncology, Hematology-Oncology, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Gynecologic Oncology, Radiation Oncology or other suitable o...
Stanford physicians, including Global Oncology (GO) co-founder Dr. Ami Bhatt, are engaged in an ongoing and wide-ranging collaboration with the country’s ministry of health and doctors at major university-affiliated hospitals to improve several areas of cancer care. The collaboration is supported...
International cancer control experts meet staff at the surgery ward of the Mbabane Government Hospital located in Swaziland’s capital, Mbabane. (Photo: A. Juric/IAEA) Swaziland will expand its cancer services to address the increasing number of cases, which is adding pressure to an alrea...
In a deal similar to the one that turned the tide against AIDS, manufacturers and charities will make chemotherapy drugs available in six poor countries at steep discounts. By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Continue Reading...
When after medical school, he chose oncology as his field of specialization, many of his colleagues called Sokha Eav crazy. ‘Why pick a discipline in which there is no future in this country,’ he recalls his friends asking. Fast forward twenty years and Eav, who is the head of the Onco-Hemato...
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A Cobalt-60 machine, donated to Mulago Hospital in 1995 broke down in April 2016, thereby rendering radiotherapy unavailable for tens of thousands of Ugandan cancer patients. Most recent reporting on the issue: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2017/03/waiting-die-uganda-untrea...