Pathology and cancer in Africa

In high-income countries, it would be inconceivable to treat a tumour when its pathology is unknown. However, this can be the case among patients in sub-Saharan Africa. The absence of pathologists and the resultant delays in reporting contribute to patients being treated before the nature of the les...

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Autor principal: Fleming, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2019
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6722111/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31552118
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2019.945
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description In high-income countries, it would be inconceivable to treat a tumour when its pathology is unknown. However, this can be the case among patients in sub-Saharan Africa. The absence of pathologists and the resultant delays in reporting contribute to patients being treated before the nature of the lesion is known. This is compounded by the frequent absence of auxiliary tests to better define tumour characteristics.
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spelling pubmed-67221112019-09-24 Pathology and cancer in Africa Fleming, Kenneth Ecancermedicalscience Short Communication In high-income countries, it would be inconceivable to treat a tumour when its pathology is unknown. However, this can be the case among patients in sub-Saharan Africa. The absence of pathologists and the resultant delays in reporting contribute to patients being treated before the nature of the lesion is known. This is compounded by the frequent absence of auxiliary tests to better define tumour characteristics. Cancer Intelligence 2019-07-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6722111/ /pubmed/31552118 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2019.945 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6722111/
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