# OnCo record idea-acc-frugal-hdr-brachytherapy (idea). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
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<https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-acc-frugal-hdr-brachytherapy/>
  a schema:CreativeWork ;
  onco:kind "idea" ;
  schema:identifier "idea-acc-frugal-hdr-brachytherapy" ;
  schema:name "Low-cost cobalt-60 brachytherapy for cervical cancer in every regional centre"@en ;
  schema:description "Cervical cancer cannot be cured by external radiotherapy alone; it needs brachytherapy, internal radiation that LMIC radiotherapy centres frequently lack or cannot keep running because iridium-192 sources must be replaced every three months. Cobalt-60 sources last about five years and give equivalent doses, so funding cobalt units for every regional centre closes a well-understood cure gap."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-acc-frugal-hdr-brachytherapy/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-08"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:citation <https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/cancer> ;
  onco:cancers <https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/> ;
  onco:sections <https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/> ;
  onco:technologies <https://onco.cc/technologies/brachytherapy/> ;
  onco:bottlenecks <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-global-access/>, <https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-surgery-radiation-innovation/> .