Improving Brain Tumor Research in Resource-Limited Countries: A Review of the Literature Focusing on West Africa

Neoplasms of the brain are often overlooked in resource-limited countries. Our literature search via AJOL and PubMed demonstrated that brain tumor research is still a rarity in these regions. We highlight the current status, importance, challenges, and methods of improving brain tumor research in We...

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Autores principales: Ngulde, Saidu I, Fezeu, Francis, Ramesh, Arjun, Moosa, Shayan, Purow, Benjamin, Lopez, Beatrice, Schiff, David, Hussaini, Isa M, Sandabe, Umar K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2015
Materias:
Oncology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4671837/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26677422
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.372
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author Ngulde, Saidu I
Fezeu, Francis
Ramesh, Arjun
Moosa, Shayan
Purow, Benjamin
Lopez, Beatrice
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Sandabe, Umar K
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Ramesh, Arjun
Moosa, Shayan
Purow, Benjamin
Lopez, Beatrice
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description Neoplasms of the brain are often overlooked in resource-limited countries. Our literature search via AJOL and PubMed demonstrated that brain tumor research is still a rarity in these regions. We highlight the current status, importance, challenges, and methods of improving brain tumor research in West Africa. We suggest that more attention be given to basic, clinical, and epidemiological brain tumor research by national governments, private organizations, international organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and individuals in this region.
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spelling pubmed-46718372015-12-16 Improving Brain Tumor Research in Resource-Limited Countries: A Review of the Literature Focusing on West Africa Ngulde, Saidu I Fezeu, Francis Ramesh, Arjun Moosa, Shayan Purow, Benjamin Lopez, Beatrice Schiff, David Hussaini, Isa M Sandabe, Umar K Cureus Oncology Neoplasms of the brain are often overlooked in resource-limited countries. Our literature search via AJOL and PubMed demonstrated that brain tumor research is still a rarity in these regions. We highlight the current status, importance, challenges, and methods of improving brain tumor research in West Africa. We suggest that more attention be given to basic, clinical, and epidemiological brain tumor research by national governments, private organizations, international organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and individuals in this region. Cureus 2015-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC4671837/ /pubmed/26677422 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.372 Text en Copyright © 2015, Ngulde et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Oncology
Ngulde, Saidu I
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Ramesh, Arjun
Moosa, Shayan
Purow, Benjamin
Lopez, Beatrice
Schiff, David
Hussaini, Isa M
Sandabe, Umar K
Improving Brain Tumor Research in Resource-Limited Countries: A Review of the Literature Focusing on West Africa
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4671837/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.372
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