2022
DOI: 10.3917/spub.223.0425
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Radiothérapie et lutte contre les cancers : défis de maintenance de l’unique accélérateur linéaire à l’Hôpital du Mali

Abstract: Les taux d’incidence et de mortalité par cancers ne cessent d’augmenter en Afrique de l’Ouest. La cancérologie est une discipline récente au Mali et les moyens disponibles pour traiter les malades sont insuffisants. Le Mali compte un unique appareil de radiothérapie pour le pays et ses dysfonctionnements sont régulièrement relayés par les médias. Afin de comprendre les insatisfactions récurrentes liées à l’accès à la radiothérapie au Mali, nous avons retracé l’historique de cet appareil et en avons décrit le f… Show more

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“…Since it became available in 2014, the machine has suffered several breakdowns, which have been regularly reported in the national media. Patients and carers deplore these repeated breakdowns, which interrupt treatment and contribute to long delays in obtaining appointments; patients' associations are mobilising to denounce the enormous delays that can occur before accessing this treatment [ 30 ]. The recurrent unavailability of this essential breast cancer treatment and the late stages at which women present explain why breast amputation (radical mastectomy) is almost systematic in Mali: "Yes, normally this should be my eleventh session, but last Tuesday, the table was blocked.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Since it became available in 2014, the machine has suffered several breakdowns, which have been regularly reported in the national media. Patients and carers deplore these repeated breakdowns, which interrupt treatment and contribute to long delays in obtaining appointments; patients' associations are mobilising to denounce the enormous delays that can occur before accessing this treatment [ 30 ]. The recurrent unavailability of this essential breast cancer treatment and the late stages at which women present explain why breast amputation (radical mastectomy) is almost systematic in Mali: "Yes, normally this should be my eleventh session, but last Tuesday, the table was blocked.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The issue of radiotherapy is a source of tension in several countries in the subregion, but the maintenance of this equipment and the demanding international standards associated with it make radiotherapy difficult to operate at the local level [ 5 , 30 , 40 ]. In Mali, following years of lobbying by cancer associations, the state financed a second state-funded linear accelerator in June 2022.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%