Just released! Read the ICEC Essential News Letter

The July 2017 issue of the “ICEC Essential News Letter” provides a detailed overview of our current activities. These include the efforts of our Early Career Leaders expanding twinning partnerships; ICEC’s endeavors to develop and make more accessible, first-rate radiation treatment systems capable of functioning in challenging environments and developing countries; and implementing the ICEC 5-Step Progression Plan. The 5-Step Progression Plan is a program supported by the ICEC mentoring network that provides a capacity building strategy to facilitate the creation of a sustainable platform for the sharing of best practices and learnings from each other through information and technology transfer. This model program provides plans, metrics, assessment of progress and deliverables all of which are now essential to validate investment of resources and for success with grants, foundations, and supporters. The ultimate aim is for the ICEC Centers and Associates to progress to become regional and global leaders in oncology care.

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Early Career Leader Mira Shah featured in ASTROnews

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ICEC’s Early Career Leader, Mira Shah was recently featured in an Astronews article that highlighted her and several others’ climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for Radiating Hope, an organization that has helped thousands living in low- and middle-income countries receive radiation therapy.

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Early Career Leader Surbhi Grover featured in ASTROnews

 

229One of ICEC’s Early Career Leaders, Surbhi Grover, was recently featured in ASTROnews! Currently, Dr. Grover works in Botswana as head of department and is the only radiation oncologist from a U.S. institution working full-time in public health overseas.

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Summer 2017, ASTRONews article provides a review of “Radiation Oncology in the Trenches”

Astronews recently highlighted ICEC and other organizations that have launched initiatives to respond to the global need for training and resources in radiation oncology! Read more about these initiatives and the organizations working to address issues in global health.

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ICEC’s Opinion Article “Sorry, but it can’t be done!”

Too often, we hear that addressing the global need for cancer care is far too difficult and it simply cannot be done. Here at the International Cancer Export Corps, we believe global health is an obligatory part of the future and that it can be done. Read more about how we plan to transform global cancer care here!

Enlight Highlights ICEC’s Onyinye Balogun

In their latest edition, Enlight highlights one of our  Early Career Leaders, Onyinye Balogun. As a radiation oncologist at Cornell, Balogun has dedicated her life to providing education and training for radiotherapy professionals in low- and middle-income countries. Learn more about what she’s doing to improve cancer care on Page 29.

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Bringing Radiotherapy to the World

For this first time in history, we now have the data to predict the demand for radiotherapy. Now is the time to take action and make radiotherapy accessible for everyone across the globe.

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ICEC’s Manjit Dosanjh’s “From Particle Physics to Medical Applications”

ICEC’s Dr. Manjit Dosanjh has recently published an eBook! In “From Particle Physics to Medical Applications,” Dr. Dosanjh talks about the advances in medical diagnosis and cancer therapy that have been made possible because of basic physics principles and technologies developed to carry out physics research. Download a copy here!

News Deeply Features Early Career Leader Surbhi Grover

For many, delays in treatment can be a matter of life and death. Take a look at the work one of our Early Career Leaders, Surbhi Grover, is doing to improve cervical cancer care in Botswana.

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Facing Cancer Is Even Tougher If The Only Radiation Machine Is Broken

In Senegal, the only radiotherapy machine is broken, leaving patients without treatment and putting their lives at risk. For Senegalese patients, their only option is to travel 1,300 miles to Morocco for treatment.

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