Objective: About 50%-60% of all cancer cases will require radiotherapy during their treatment. Nonetheless, radiotherapy facilities are limited in low- and middle-income countries and despite high cancer burden in these regions of the world, only 5% have access to radiation therapy. This study identified the location of radiotherapy centers, the types of radiotherapy machines available and the personnel available in each radiotherapy center in Nigeria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOnline education spreads even in the medical field where traditional method of learning is more convenient. This study was designed to evaluate the experiences of nursing and radiography undergraduate students of online learning in Nigerian universities during the COVID-19 pandemic. This was a cross-sectional questionnaire-based study, which included 540 nursing and radiography students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Computed Tomography (CT) is an invaluable imaging tool in the diagnostic workup of patients presenting with head trauma, stroke, brain tumour and epilepsy. The objective of this study was to document the common intracranial pathologies as revealed by CT in our setting and also determine if the indications for CT scan are justified so that patients are not exposed to radiation unnecessarily.
Materials And Methods: This was a cross-sectional study carried out in Hansa Clinic Enugu, Enugu State, Nigeria.