Round-the-clock remote treatment-planning hubs for clinics without physicists
Hospitals without enough physicists could upload scans to a shared planning centre, where AI drafts the treatment plan and remote experts finish and check it within a day.
Radiotherapy planning (contouring organs and target, optimising beams, quality assurance) is the scarcest skill in many centres. A cloud planning hub combining AI auto-segmentation with a pooled roster of dosimetrists and physicists in higher-capacity centres would turn a two-week wait into a 24-hour service. Commercial contouring software already exists; the missing piece is the organisational and regulatory model that lets a physicist in one country sign off a plan for another.
- Most of the world has almost no cancer care · Seven in ten cancer deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries, where radiotherapy, pathology, surgery and drugs are scarce.
- Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists · The number of people with cancer is rising faster than the workforce trained to treat them.
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