Radiation therapy at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital given a multi-million rand boost

Radiation therapy at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital has been given a multi-million rand boost. New technology included a 47-million rand linear accelerator, which uses high energy waves to destroy cancer cells. The hospital sees about 3-thousand new cancer patients every year, while it does about 33-thousand follow-ups annually. Oncology specialists say more than half of the new patients will require radiotherapy treatment. For more news, visit sabcnews.com and #SABCNews on all Social Media platforms.

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