Cervical cancer treatment in Haiti: A vertically-integrated model for low-resource settings

• Raising awareness is critical to any cancer program and through our outreach events we were able to educate 33,258 women. • We have treated over 4500 women with VIA and cryotherapy or thermocoagulation. • At least 30 of our patients are currently receiving individualized chemotherapy, whether neoa...

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Autores principales: DeGennaro, Vincent, Shafer, Madelyn, Kelly, Meagan, Cornely, Jean Ronald, Bernard, Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Narrative Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6434067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30963084
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2019.03.009
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author DeGennaro, Vincent
Shafer, Madelyn
Kelly, Meagan
Cornely, Jean Ronald
Bernard, Joseph
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description • Raising awareness is critical to any cancer program and through our outreach events we were able to educate 33,258 women. • We have treated over 4500 women with VIA and cryotherapy or thermocoagulation. • At least 30 of our patients are currently receiving individualized chemotherapy, whether neoadjuvant, adjuvant or palliative. • We have brought 17 qualified patients to the operating room for radical hysterectomy. • Our goal is to train and establish an independently functioning Haitian oncology program.
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spelling pubmed-64340672019-04-08 Cervical cancer treatment in Haiti: A vertically-integrated model for low-resource settings DeGennaro, Vincent Shafer, Madelyn Kelly, Meagan Cornely, Jean Ronald Bernard, Joseph Gynecol Oncol Rep Narrative Review • Raising awareness is critical to any cancer program and through our outreach events we were able to educate 33,258 women. • We have treated over 4500 women with VIA and cryotherapy or thermocoagulation. • At least 30 of our patients are currently receiving individualized chemotherapy, whether neoadjuvant, adjuvant or palliative. • We have brought 17 qualified patients to the operating room for radical hysterectomy. • Our goal is to train and establish an independently functioning Haitian oncology program. Elsevier 2019-03-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6434067/ /pubmed/30963084 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gore.2019.03.009 Text en © 2019 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Cervical cancer treatment in Haiti: A vertically-integrated model for low-resource settings
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title_fullStr Cervical cancer treatment in Haiti: A vertically-integrated model for low-resource settings
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6434067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30963084
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