Global impact of radiotherapy in oncology: Saving one million lives by 2035

Cancer is a group of over 200 distinct diseases with a common fatal outcome if not treated. In 2016, almost 9 million patients died of cancer, an increase of 18% in just the last ten years [ [1] GBD 2016 Causes of Death Collaborators. Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. Lancet 2017;390:1151–210. Google Scholar ]. Moreover,...