A senior academic specialising in cancer research has called for a communication strategy to end the public’s exaggerated perception that nuclear radiation is harmful to human health. Gerry Thomas, professor of molecular pathology at Imperial College London, spoke at the World Nuclear Association Symposium 2018 held in London last week. Thomas said the real “problem” […]

The international community has long recognized cancer and terrorism as global challenges. In 2012, according to data compiled by World Health Organization (WHO), there were 14.1 million new cancer cases and 8.2 million cancer-related deaths worldwide. The WHO projects that, by 2035, the world could see 24 million new cancer cases and 14.5 million cancer-related […]

The Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, Ghana—the third largest hospital in Africa—houses two radiation machines for treating cancer patients. Both are relatively new, purchased by Ghana’s Ministry of Health in the last few years.

In fact, around 80 percent of Africa’s 1.2 billion people have no access to radiotherapy and related cancer services at all. I was shocked to learn that, in Nigeria’s 173 million people, many thousands of people died from cancers that would often be treatable if they lived in a country with enough trained personnel and […]