GVI Oncology

GVI Oncology is now known as Cancercare. Cancercare has 28 Clinical Oncologists in their fulltime employ, whilst their facilities around the country are used by a further 18 independent Oncology specialists. Cancercare currently has the largest complement of radiation therapists (Radiographers), radiation laboratory technicians, full time medical physicists, counsellors, oncology trained professional nurses in the country. Over the same period Cancercare grew from an organisation seeing less than 200 new patients in year one, to more than 4,200 new patients per year, and from registering less than 2,000 patient contacts in year one, to more than 130,000 patient contacts per year which administers around 17,000 chemotherapy treatments and more than 58,000 individual radiotherapy sessions per year. Cancercare is widely regarded as a forerunner in the field of cancer management in South Africa and has been responsible for many firsts in the field of radiotherapy in South Africa. ...