Mumbai, Sep 30 (PTI) The Maharashtra cabinet on Tuesday approved a comprehensive cancer care policy, under which a foundation will be set up to manage and coordinate cancer treatment at 18 hospitals.

The Maharashtra Cancer Care, Research and Education (MAHACARE) Foundation will be established for this purpose, an official release said after the weekly cabinet meeting.

Hospitals will be categorised into L1, L2, and L3 centres. While the Tata Memorial Hospital has been designated as the "L1 apex centre", eight hospitals have been identified as L2 centres and nine as L3 centres, covering key cities of Mumbai, Pune, Nagpur, Nashik and Amravati, the release said.

These centres will provide radiotherapy, chemotherapy, surgery, palliative care, postgraduate and super-specialty training, conduc

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