We are an international team with a common goal to deliver an affordable and life saving radiotherapy service for North West Cameroon.

Our core team consists of the following professions:

Physicians

Radiation Oncologists

Civil Engineers

Medical Physicists

Dosimetrists

Radiotherapy Technologists

Administrators

We have published a paper "Developing a modern radiotherapy department in a rural hospital in Cameroon: The Mbingo experience". This gives a more detailed overview of the early stages of the project.

There are a number of organisations involved in the project, some of whom are listed below (in no particular order):

African Mission Healthcare - has awarded $500,000 for training the staff who will deliver radiation therapy treatments

Medical Physicists in Diaspora for  Africa (Mephida. e.V)

North Wales Cancer Treatment Centre - donation of a Varian 2100C/D linear accelerator and spare parts

The Deansley Centre, New Cross Hospital - donation of the baseframe that secures the accelerator precisely to the floor

Lingen Davies Oncology Centre, Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital - donation of spare parts for the linear accelerator

The ANCHOR Centre, Royal Aberdeen Infirmary - donation of medical physics QA equipment (IBA water tank) and spare parts

HCA Healthcare, University College Hospital, London - donation of medical physics equipment (PTW Octavius and 2D array)

The Harley Street Clinic, London - donation of electrometers and ionisation chambers