5 Best Countries for Cancer Treatment

2. Belgium

Belgium has high survival rates for the main types of cancer with 85.4% for breast cancer and 92.6% for prostate cancer. Belgium is one of the EU countries where the number of practicing doctors has been increasing rapidly, the number of nurses is more than the average number of nurses in the rest of the EU, and the graduate pool has been growing steadily. As of 2020, the country had 3,147 oncology nurses and 44 hematology and pediatric oncology physicians.

The country’s number of radiotherapy centers is higher than that of the rest of the EU at 9.9 centers per million inhabitants and its residents have access to high-tech proton beam therapy as Leuven Kankerinstituut started accepting patients in 2020.