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PATIENT ADVOCACY-02 BRAIN TUMORS MATTER: HOW TO IMPROVE THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH BRAIN TUMORS AT THE CNHU HKM OF COTONOU IN BENIN?

Cancer care in Benin is still in its inception in Benin. The first cancer registry was created in Benin in 2014. In the study of Egué et al, published in 2019, there were 1086 cases of cancer recorded in the cancer registry in Benin from 2014 to 2016, including 18 cases of nervous system cancer repr...

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Autor principal: Gankpe, Gbetoho Fortune
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10616575/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/noajnl/vdad121.049
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description Cancer care in Benin is still in its inception in Benin. The first cancer registry was created in Benin in 2014. In the study of Egué et al, published in 2019, there were 1086 cases of cancer recorded in the cancer registry in Benin from 2014 to 2016, including 18 cases of nervous system cancer representing 2.3% and 1.2% of cancers in men and women respectively. When compared to other types of cancers including liver and prostate in men and cervix and breast in women, brain cancers appear very low. However, there is no structure dedicated to the treatment of nervous system cancers since there are no neuro-oncologist in Benin and many patients diagnosed with brain tumors are frequently refer outside our country for treatment. Rare patients undergo surgery in our country for brain tumors. Therefore, we can assume that brain tumors statistics are not really indicative of the burden of morbidity and mortality related to nervous system cancer in Benin. The need to organize the management of patients suffering from nervous system tumors is therefore necessary. In order to meet this need, we plan to set up a neuro-oncology unit in Benin in order to improve the neurosurgical management of patients with intracranial tumors at the CNHU HKM Cotonou and also to initiate research projects related to brain tumor care in Benin.
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spelling pubmed-106165752023-11-01 PATIENT ADVOCACY-02 BRAIN TUMORS MATTER: HOW TO IMPROVE THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH BRAIN TUMORS AT THE CNHU HKM OF COTONOU IN BENIN? Gankpe, Gbetoho Fortune Neurooncol Adv Final Category: Patient Advocacy Cancer care in Benin is still in its inception in Benin. The first cancer registry was created in Benin in 2014. In the study of Egué et al, published in 2019, there were 1086 cases of cancer recorded in the cancer registry in Benin from 2014 to 2016, including 18 cases of nervous system cancer representing 2.3% and 1.2% of cancers in men and women respectively. When compared to other types of cancers including liver and prostate in men and cervix and breast in women, brain cancers appear very low. However, there is no structure dedicated to the treatment of nervous system cancers since there are no neuro-oncologist in Benin and many patients diagnosed with brain tumors are frequently refer outside our country for treatment. Rare patients undergo surgery in our country for brain tumors. Therefore, we can assume that brain tumors statistics are not really indicative of the burden of morbidity and mortality related to nervous system cancer in Benin. The need to organize the management of patients suffering from nervous system tumors is therefore necessary. In order to meet this need, we plan to set up a neuro-oncology unit in Benin in order to improve the neurosurgical management of patients with intracranial tumors at the CNHU HKM Cotonou and also to initiate research projects related to brain tumor care in Benin. Oxford University Press 2023-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10616575/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/noajnl/vdad121.049 Text en © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press, the Society for Neuro-Oncology and the European Association of Neuro-Oncology. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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PATIENT ADVOCACY-02 BRAIN TUMORS MATTER: HOW TO IMPROVE THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH BRAIN TUMORS AT THE CNHU HKM OF COTONOU IN BENIN?
title PATIENT ADVOCACY-02 BRAIN TUMORS MATTER: HOW TO IMPROVE THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH BRAIN TUMORS AT THE CNHU HKM OF COTONOU IN BENIN?
title_full PATIENT ADVOCACY-02 BRAIN TUMORS MATTER: HOW TO IMPROVE THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH BRAIN TUMORS AT THE CNHU HKM OF COTONOU IN BENIN?
title_fullStr PATIENT ADVOCACY-02 BRAIN TUMORS MATTER: HOW TO IMPROVE THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH BRAIN TUMORS AT THE CNHU HKM OF COTONOU IN BENIN?
title_full_unstemmed PATIENT ADVOCACY-02 BRAIN TUMORS MATTER: HOW TO IMPROVE THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH BRAIN TUMORS AT THE CNHU HKM OF COTONOU IN BENIN?
title_short PATIENT ADVOCACY-02 BRAIN TUMORS MATTER: HOW TO IMPROVE THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH BRAIN TUMORS AT THE CNHU HKM OF COTONOU IN BENIN?
title_sort patient advocacy-02 brain tumors matter: how to improve the management of patients with brain tumors at the cnhu hkm of cotonou in benin?
topic Final Category: Patient Advocacy
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10616575/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/noajnl/vdad121.049
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