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L’oncologie médicale, nouvelle spécialité en Afrique?

Cancer is a major public health problem in Africa. Advances in the treatment of cancers over the last decade are undeniable. Multidisciplinary approach is essential for improved patient's management. Medical oncology is a recently-recognized speciality in Africa Indeed, many African countries d...

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Autores principales: Brahmi, Sami Aziz, Ziani, Fatima Zahra, Seddik, Youssef, Afqir, Said
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5516690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28761612
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.27.36.9531
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description Cancer is a major public health problem in Africa. Advances in the treatment of cancers over the last decade are undeniable. Multidisciplinary approach is essential for improved patient's management. Medical oncology is a recently-recognized speciality in Africa Indeed, many African countries do not have doctors or a sufficient number of doctors qualified to practice in this medical specialty. The fight against cancer in Africa involves oncology speciality training and the development of curricula in order to ensure optimum patient management.
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spelling pubmed-55166902017-07-31 L’oncologie médicale, nouvelle spécialité en Afrique? Brahmi, Sami Aziz Ziani, Fatima Zahra Seddik, Youssef Afqir, Said Pan Afr Med J Letter to the Editors Cancer is a major public health problem in Africa. Advances in the treatment of cancers over the last decade are undeniable. Multidisciplinary approach is essential for improved patient's management. Medical oncology is a recently-recognized speciality in Africa Indeed, many African countries do not have doctors or a sufficient number of doctors qualified to practice in this medical specialty. The fight against cancer in Africa involves oncology speciality training and the development of curricula in order to ensure optimum patient management. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5516690/ /pubmed/28761612 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.27.36.9531 Text en © Sami Aziz Brahmi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. 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 work is properly cited.
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Seddik, Youssef
Afqir, Said
L’oncologie médicale, nouvelle spécialité en Afrique?
title L’oncologie médicale, nouvelle spécialité en Afrique?
title_full L’oncologie médicale, nouvelle spécialité en Afrique?
title_fullStr L’oncologie médicale, nouvelle spécialité en Afrique?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5516690/
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