STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT OF RADIATION THERAPY IN RUSSIA
This article analyses the radiotherapy status in Russia in comparison with the other countries in the world against a background of cancer death rate. The Assessment of the potential of the country or re- gion to render a radiotherapy service is given. In particular, the authors offer the comparison on the number of accelerators and radiotherapy centers in the regions of Russia. The need for equipment, ra- diation oncologists and medical physicists per number of patients and population is shown. A simpli- fied method of the quantitative assessment of the quality of the technical equipment of radiotherapy centers is presented.