Role of Private Enterprise in Cancer Control in Low to Middle Income Countries

Table 1

Public versus private cancer care.

	Traditional government cancer care	Private cancer center care
Location	Within large tertiary university teaching hospitals	In a facility dedicated solely to cancer care
Focus	Spread across multiple specialties including general medicine	Specifically on oncology
Scope of services	Very broad	Limited to oncology related services
Maintenance of facilities	Generally challenging	Easier to accomplish
Quality	Limited by local expertise	Enhanced by international telemedicine
Administrative model	Large, bureaucratic	Small, nimble