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:

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.

A number of other organisations have made substantial contributions to the project, some of whom are listed below (all links open in new windows):

 Raysearch Laboratories AB - donation of their RayStation treatment planning software and RayCare oncology information system

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

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

  BC Cancer - donation of a Varian RPM gating system for use with the hospitals CT scanner

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

Radiation Engineering Department, Kent & Canterbury Hospital - donation of a large number of spare parts for the linear accelerator

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