Onyeodi Ifeanyichukwu Augustine, Fagbenro Gabriel T, Bashir Mariam A, Awofeso Opeyemi M, Joseph Adedayo O
Department of Community Health & Primary Care, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, 103, Ilaje Road, Bariga, Lagos 100254, Nigeria.
Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos 100254, Nigeria.
Ecancermedicalscience. 2022 Aug 11;16:1440. doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2022.1440. eCollection 2022.
The number of cancer patients in Nigeria continues to rise; however, global advances in cancer research are making the provision of optimal care possible. Cancer management is globally agreed to be multidisciplinary, with patients now having the right to benefit from progress in systemic cancer therapy and radio-diagnosis by receiving treatment from adequately trained and highly skilled clinical and radiation oncologists. Radiation oncology is part of the three divisions that make up oncology - medical oncology, surgical oncology and radiation oncology. This discipline in recent times has been developed into Clinical Oncology and although both clinical oncologists and medical oncologists continue to deliver non-surgical cancer treatment, only clinical oncologists are qualified to deliver radiotherapy in the management of cancers. Though clinical oncologists continue to provide quality cancer workforce for the country's increasing number of cancer patients, much is still unknown about this discipline in Nigeria. It is hoped that inspiring radio-oncologists will take note of the information provided by this article as a guide. This paper chronicles the multifarious process involved in training to become a clinical and radiation-oncologist in Nigeria, plus the requirements, as well as pertinent information a budding physician seeking to advance in this highly specialised field requires.
尼日利亚癌症患者的数量持续上升；然而，全球癌症研究的进展使得提供最佳治疗成为可能。全球公认癌症管理是多学科的，现在患者有权通过接受训练有素、技术精湛的临床肿瘤学家和放射肿瘤学家的治疗，从全身癌症治疗和放射诊断的进展中获益。放射肿瘤学是构成肿瘤学的三个分支之一——医学肿瘤学、外科肿瘤学和放射肿瘤学。近年来，这一学科已发展为临床肿瘤学，虽然临床肿瘤学家和医学肿瘤学家都继续提供非手术癌症治疗，但只有临床肿瘤学家有资格在癌症治疗中提供放射治疗。尽管临床肿瘤学家继续为该国日益增多的癌症患者提供高质量的癌症医疗服务，但在尼日利亚，人们对这一学科仍知之甚少。希望有抱负的放射肿瘤学家能将本文提供的信息作为指南。本文记录了在尼日利亚成为临床和放射肿瘤学家所涉及的繁杂培训过程、要求，以及一名初出茅庐的医生在这个高度专业化领域取得进展所需的相关信息。
