Cancer is rapidly becoming an epidemic throughout the world. Currently, 8.2 million people die from cancer every year, according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO website 2014), which puts cancer among the leading causes of death worldwide. Owing in part to lack of preventive measures and limited access to healthcare, mortality rates are much higher among patients inlow-income countries (LICs). Thenumber of new cancer cases is expected to rise by about 70% over the next two decades, and LICs will shoulder a disproportionate percentage of theburden(Parkinet al. 2003). As one of the poorest countries in the world, Tanzania is no exception. The country currently sees more than 35,000 (Ferlay et al. 2014) new cancer cases every year, according to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, and 80% of the country’s cancer victims die each year. Although Tanzania has madestrides towardimplementingcomprehensivecancer care with the establishment of the Ocean Road Cancer Institute (ORCI) and cancer care facilities at Bugando Medical Centre (BMC), these facilities face shortages in equipment and medicines, and currently only have the combined capacity to serve about 5,000 patients annually, according to Dr. Kristin Schroeder, whoisanoncologistat BMC. Asaresult, largeareas ofTanzania remainrelativelyuntouchedby formal cancer care programs, including the Northern Healthcare Zone, which is home to more than 15% of Tanzania’s population according to the 2012 National Census Tanzania (National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) website.