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https://ecancer.org/en/journal/article/1097-radiotherapy-waiting-time-in-northern-nigeria-experience-from-a-resourcelimited-setting
BACKGROUND: Access and availability of radiotherapy treatment is limited in most low- and middle-income countries, which leads to long waiting …
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Cervical cancer: a meta-analysis, therapy and future of nanomedicine
Cervical cancer is one of the leading causes of female death, with an annual mortality rate exceeding 200,000 in developing …
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Impact of axillary node-positivity and surgical resection margins on survival of women treated for breast cancer in Ibadan, Nigeria
INTRODUCTION: Oncologic surgical extirpation, the mainstay of loco-regional disease control in breast cancer, is aimed at achieving negative margins and …
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Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberance in a black African cohort – a clinicopathologic study
BACKGROUND: Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberance (DFSP) is the commonest, yet rare, dermal sarcoma globally. There are few reports in the literature of …
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Early molecular response in East African Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukaemia patients treated with Imatinib and barriers to access treatment
BACKGROUND: Data about haematologic malignancies from Tanzania are sparse. African studies show that chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) is the most …
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Underutilisation of nuclear medicine scans at a regional hospital in Nigeria: need for implementation research
BACKGROUND: Nuclear medicine needs better integration into the Nigerian health system. To understand the relevant public health initiatives that will …
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Good clinical practice advice for the management of patients with gynaecological cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria and other resource-constrained countries
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare services in settings with under-resourced health systems such as that of Nigeria …
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Should cancer treatment be continued during the COVID-19 pandemic? A single Egyptian institution experience
The first confirmed case of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Egypt was reported on 14 February, 2020. Menoufia Clinical Oncology …
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Serum vitamin D deficiency and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer in Lagos, Nigeria
The studies that have evaluated the association between vitamin D and risk of ovarian cancer have reported inconsistent findings. Many …
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Oncology nursing education and practice: looking back, looking forward and Rwanda’s perspective
BACKGROUND: Oncology care is a highly specialised division of nursing which requires a higher level of training and education following …
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Tumour-infiltrating Langerhans cells in non-melanoma skin cancer, a clinical and immunohistochemical study
Non-melanoma skin cancer, including basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) represents 78.5% of all skin malignant tumours …
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Histopathologic patterns of cutaneous malignancies in individuals with oculocutaneous albinism in Anambra state, Nigeria: a paradigm swing?
BACKGROUND: A high proportion of skin cancers in Nigeria occur in Individuals with oculocutaneous albinism (OCA). A reduction or absence …
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Socio-culturally mediated factors and lower level of education are the main influencers of functional cervical cancer literacy among women in Mayuge, Eastern Uganda
BACKGROUND: Health literacy (HL) is the degree of an individual's knowledge and capacity to seek, understand and use health information …
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Cancer in Santiago Island, Cape Verde: data from the Hospital Agostinho Neto Cancer Registry (2017–2018)
This report describes the cancer cases that occurred between 2017 and 2018 in Santiago Island, Cape Verde, according to the …
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Developing medical oncology in Africa
BACKGROUND: Kenya, like most other developing countries, is undergoing an epidemiologic shift of disease patterns characterized by an increasing prevalence …
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The state of medical oncology in Senegal
Senegal has only one medical oncology specialist, who works at the Cancer Institute, but chemotherapy is performed in several public …
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Cancer prevention and control: Kaposi’s sarcoma
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a vascular tumour of endothelial origin that is associated with human herpes virus-8 infection. In sub-Saharan …
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Cancer treatment in Africa: surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy with a focus on what needs to be done to improve these services—the importance of the role of nursing
Nurses in all aspects of oncology have a key role to play in the delivery of effective cancer care. Unfortunately, …
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Cancer prevention in Africa: liver cancer
Hepatocellular carcinoma is a common cancer in Africa. The risk factors are well known and avoidable in most cases (hepatitis …
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Cancer control in Africa: is cancer research a luxury or necessity?
Decision makers dealing with resource allocation in Africa have the impression that cancer research is a luxury. As a result …