Table 4.

Summary of available infrastructures for cancer diagnosis in Syria. Modified from the source “Cancer Care in Times of Crisis and War: The Syrian Example, Table 2”.

Resources	Major Provinces	Besieged Provinces
Pathology	Available	Limited*
Conventional Imaging	Available	Limited
Mammography	Limited	Extremely limited*
Nuclear Medicine Services	Limited	Not available
Screening	Not available	Not available
Genetic testing	Not available	Not available
Clinical Trials	Not available	Not available
Teleradiology	Not available	Not available

*Limited: Services that are clustered in city capital of all besieged provinces but lacking in peripheral areas. Resources capabilities, infrastructure and manpower are suboptimal in these areas.

*Extremely limited: Services that are confined to city capital of only few provinces but lacking in many other provinces. Resource capabilities, infrastructure and manpower are suboptimal in these areas.