In this article, four cancer survivors, Ashleigh, Pamela, Evelyn and Kamunthowa talk about their experience with cancer and the support they received from the Cancer Diseases Hospital in Zambia.
The Cancer Diseases Hospital in Lusaka is Zambia’s only cancer treatment centre offering radiation therapy to the country’s 14 million people. In 2017, the hospital marked its tenth anniversary, having diagnosed and treated over 17 000 people in its first decade.
The IAEA has assisted the Cancer Diseases Hospital establish safe and effective radiotherapy services, and has provided extensive technical support and specialist training since planning for the hospital began in 2002. The IAEA also supported Zambia by assessing their national cancer control capacities and needs (imPACT Review), and training health professionals in palliative care, cervical cancer screening and cancer skills for community health workers.
