# International Atomic Energy Agency: Rays of Hope

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## TL;DR

The UN nuclear agency's programme to bring radiotherapy and nuclear medicine to the dozens of countries that have no or too few treatment machines.

## Summary

The IAEA has supported radiotherapy and nuclear medicine in member states for decades through technical cooperation, dosimetry audits and the Human Health Programme, and in 2022 launched Rays of Hope to close the gap in countries where most cancer patients who need radiotherapy cannot get it. Rays of Hope funds equipment, training and quality assurance, working first in African countries with no linear accelerators, and creates Anchor Centres of expertise. The agency's Programme of Action for Cancer Therapy (PACT) runs imPACT reviews of national cancer control capacity with WHO and IARC, and its Dosimetry Laboratory underpins radiotherapy calibration worldwide. The IAEA also supports radiopharmaceutical production capacity for theranostics.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: IAEA; Rays of Hope; PACT
- City: Vienna, AT
- Type: government
- Website: https://www.iaea.org/services/rays-of-hope

## Sources

- Rays of Hope: https://www.iaea.org/services/rays-of-hope
- IAEA cancer: https://www.iaea.org/topics/cancer

## Connected records

- fronts: [Radiation Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/), [Radiopharmaceuticals & Theranostics](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiopharma/)
- technologies: [Brachytherapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/brachytherapy/), [IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam)](https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/), [PET/CT](https://onco.cc/technologies/pet-ct/), [Radioligand therapy (beta emitters)](https://onco.cc/technologies/radioligand-therapy/)
- institutions: [European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology](https://onco.cc/institutions/estro/), [International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/iarc/), [Union for International Cancer Control](https://onco.cc/institutions/uicc/), [World Health Organization Cancer Programme](https://onco.cc/institutions/who/)
- terms: [Dosimetry](https://onco.cc/terms/dosimetry/)
- people: [Rafael Mariano Grossi](https://onco.cc/people/rafael-mariano-grossi/)
- bottlenecks: [Most of the world has almost no cancer care](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-global-access/), [Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-surgery-radiation-innovation/)

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