Table 6.
Radiation therapy equipment needed versus available for UP and its 10 cities with radiation therapy centers based upon GLOBOCAN 2008 data.
| Megavoltage teletherapy units |
Brachytherapy units |
CT simulators |
Treatment planning computer systems |
Dosimetry/QA packages |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Needed | Available | Needed | Available | Needed | Available | Needed | Available | Needed | Available | |
| UP | 190 | 26 | 95 | 17 | 95 | 11 | 95 | 19 | 95 | 0 |
| Agra | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Aligarh | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Allahabad | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Bareilly | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Benares | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Gorakhpur | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jhansi | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Kanpur | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Lucknow | 3 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
| Noida | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 |