Table 5.
Radiation therapy (RT) staff needed versus available for UP and its 10 cities with radiation therapy centers based upon GLOBOCAN 2008 data.
| Number requiring radiotherapy | Radiation/clinical oncologists |
RT technicians |
Medical physicists |
Linac engineers |
RT nurses |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Needed | Available | Needed | Available | Needed | Available | Needed | Availableb | Needed | Availableb | ||
| UP | 94808 | 802 | 87 | 1138 | 83 | 380 | 38 | 95 | 0 | 380 | 0 |
| Agra | 748 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2a | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Aligarh | 415 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2a | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Allahabad | 531 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 2a | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Bareilly | 427 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2a | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Benares | 571 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 2a | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Gorakhpur | 319 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2a | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Jhansi | 241 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2a | 1 | 2a | 0 | 2a | 0 |
| Kanpur | 1315 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Lucknow | 1338 | 12 | 28 | 17 | 20 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| Noida | 305 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 2a | 0 | 2 | 0 |
aAt least two are required in each.
bThere is no specialization for RT nurses or Linac engineers in UP.