Cancer treatment in Africa: surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy with a focus on what needs to be done to improve these services—the importance of the role of nursing

Nurses in all aspects of oncology have a key role to play in the delivery of effective cancer care. Unfortunately, oncology nursing is not yet an established nursing subspecialty in most of Africa; six out of 22 African countries reported as having no trained oncology nurses at all. The need for more personnel and quality training programmes are an absolute necessity.