{"entity":{"id":"namibia-oncology-centre","kind":"institution","name":"Namibia Oncology Centre (NOC)","aka":["NOC","Namibia Oncology Centre Windhoek"],"tldr":"A private cancer treatment centre in Windhoek, opened in 2015, with a radiotherapy machine. Together with the public centre at Windhoek Central Hospital it is where Namibia's cancer patients are referred.","summary":"The African Cancer Registry Network's page on the Namibian registry says the Namibia Oncology Centre, a specialised private cancer treatment facility, opened in 2015, and that it is one of the two places, with the Dr A.B. May Cancer Care Centre, where registry data are primarily collected. IAEA DIRAC, with the entry last updated in 2018, lists one linear accelerator and a CT scanner in the Eros district of Windhoek. Its website did not answer in November 2026. The coordinates are DIRAC's.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"African Cancer Registry Network: Namibian National Cancer Registry","url":"https://afcrn.org/index.php/membership/membership-list/125-nambiancr"},{"label":"IAEA DIRAC: radiotherapy equipment by centre (read 11 November 2026)","url":"https://dirac.iaea.org/Data/CountriesLight"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["namibia-national-cancer-registry","namibia-ministry-of-health"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Windhoek","country":"NA","lat":-22.544,"lng":17.086,"institutionType":"cancer-center","programs":["Radiotherapy (one linear accelerator in IAEA DIRAC)"]},"route":"/institutions/namibia-oncology-centre/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"namibia-ministry-of-health","kind":"institution","name":"Ministry of Health and Social Services, Namibia","route":"/institutions/namibia-ministry-of-health/"},{"id":"namibia-national-cancer-registry","kind":"institution","name":"Namibian National Cancer Registry","route":"/institutions/namibia-national-cancer-registry/"}]}}