Nuclear security experts and diplomats from Europe, North America and 13 African countries have visited a newly installed cancer treatment facility at the National Centre for Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.

A workshop held at CERN late last year saw physicists, oncologists and industry experts define the design characteristics of a novel linear accelerator that will make radiotherapy more readily available in lower-resourced countries.

A five-day capacity-building workshop on nuclear security in Africa has opened in Accra with a focus on how national and international approaches can prevent terrorists, criminal gangs and armed merchants from accessing deadly nuclear and radioactive materials.

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 […]