Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom plans to start selling a Russia-made radiation therapy device to treat cancer in 2022, according to the corporation's annual report for 2017.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 13th August, 2018) Russia's State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom plans to start selling a Russia-made radiation therapy device to treat cancer in 2022, according to the corporation's annual report for 2017.
"The development of a Russia-made equipment for radiation therapy based on a 6 MeV linear accelerator has started with the co-financing from the [Russian] education and Science Ministry. The device is expected to get out onto the market in 2022," the report read.
Once put into operation, the equipment could reduce Russia's dependence on imports of modern medical equipment.
The radiotherapy device is being manufactured by a consortium of enterprises under the supervision of the Moscow-based Scientific Research Institute of Technical Physics.
