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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Dec 16.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Oncol. 2021 Sep;22(9):e391–e399. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(21)00351-X

Table 2:

Regional summary of radiotherapy access in 2020

Megavoltage units Megavoltage units per million Megavoltage units per 1000 cancer cases Coverage*
2012 2020 2012 2020 2012 2020 2012 2020
Eastern Africa 22 40 0·061 0·090 0·081 0·113 6·34% 8·85%
Central Africa 6 8 0·043 0·044 0·072 0·078 5·66% 6·10%
Northern Africa 159 258 0·794 1·050 0·764 0·914 59·70% 71·29%
Southern Africa 94 100 1·564 1·481 1·134 0·833 88·61% 65·11%
Western Africa 13 24 0·039 0·059 0·065 0·098 5·08% 7·70%
*

Coverage assuming a radiotherapy utilisation rate of 64%.