title: Radiotherapy in Tanzania.
abstract: The treatment of malignancies with radiotherapy and intracavitary techniques at the Tanzanian Tumor Center in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during an eight-month period in 1979 is reported. Cancer of the uterine cervix was the tumor most frequently treated by radiation, as well as breast, esophagus, skin, and bladder cancers.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001918:Brachytherapy; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D002051:Burkitt Lymphoma / Q000532:radiotherapy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*; D011867:Radioisotope Teletherapy; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000532:radiotherapy; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D013636:Tanzania; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy