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India has PET-CT machines-So why are cancer patients still waiting for reports?
India has 0.3 PET-CT scanners per million population, way below the World Health Organization standard of 2 and the American standard of 4
A patient in a Tier-3 city like Roorkee or Tenkasi receives a cancer diagnosis. Her oncologist orders a PET-CT scan. She gets it done at a nearby center and then waits. Not because the technology failed, but because there is no one licensed to read i... [7224 chars]
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