Summary In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), urgent action is needed to curb a growing crisis in
cancer incidence and mortality. Without rapid interventions, data estimates show a major …

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to fundamentally alter the way medicine is
practised. AI platforms excel in recognizing complex patterns in medical data and provide a …

The number of patients with cancer in Africa has been predicted to increase from 844 279 in
2012 to more than 1· 5 million in 2030. However, many countries in Africa still lack access to …

Summary The first Lancet Oncology Commission on Global Cancer Surgery was published
in 2015 and serves as a landmark paper in the field of cancer surgery. The Commission …

The discipline of radiation oncology is the most resource-intensive component of
comprehensive cancer care because of significant initial investments required for machines …

Brachytherapy has a long history of delivering a highly conformal radiation dose to the target
volume with sparing of adjacent normal tissue and has an irreplaceable role in certain …

Precision radiotherapy is a critical and indispensable cancer treatment means in the modern
clinical workflow with the goal of achieving “quality-up and cost-down” in patient care. The …

This study aimed to evaluate the performance for answering the Japanese medical physicist
examination and providing the benchmark of knowledge about medical physics in language …

Purpose A novel compensator‐based system has been proposed which delivers intensity‐
modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) with cobalt‐60 beams. This could improve access to …

In contemporary radiotherapy planning (RTP), a key module leaf sequencing is
predominantly addressed by optimization-based approaches. In this paper, we propose a …