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Mapping evidence on ovarian, endometrial, vaginal, and vulva cancer research in Africa: a scoping review protocol
BACKGROUND: Globally, cancer is generally recognized as a developmental threat yet most countries in Africa lack capacity to diagnose cancer especially gynecological cancers resulting in late detection and poor outcomes. However, most studies on gynecological cancers in Africa tend to focus on cervi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8045365/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33849664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01654-0 |
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author | Ninimiya, Sebastian Yidana Ansu-Mensah, Monica Bawontuo, Vitalis Kuupiel, Desmond |
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description | BACKGROUND: Globally, cancer is generally recognized as a developmental threat yet most countries in Africa lack capacity to diagnose cancer especially gynecological cancers resulting in late detection and poor outcomes. However, most studies on gynecological cancers in Africa tend to focus on cervical cancer compared to the other gynecological cancers. Therefore, this scoping review will aim to describe the existing literature on the epidemiological burden of ovarian, endometrial, vaginal, and vulva cancers, their risk factors, and potential screening methods/techniques in Africa to identify priority research gaps for further research to inform health policy decisions. METHODS: The framework promulgated by Arksey and O’Malley and improved by Levac et al. will be used as a guide for this scoping review. A comprehensive search for relevant published studies in PubMed, CINAHL, SCOPUS, Google Scholar, and ScienceDirect with no date limitation to the last search date. The database search strategy will include keywords, Boolean operators, and medical subject heading terms. We will additionally consult the WHO/IARC website, IHME/Global Burden of Disease Study. A snowball approach will also be used to search the reference list of all included studies to obtain relevant papers for possible inclusion in this review. We will include articles that involve African countries, focused on ovarian, endometrial, vaginal, and vulva cancers, their risk factors, and potential screening methods/techniques in any language. We will exclude studies on cervical cancer and other cancers as well as review articles. The abstracts and full-text selection will be conducted by two independent reviewers using this review’s eligibility criteria as a guide. All the review selection tools, and the data extraction form will be pilot tested for accuracy and consistency. The data will be organized into thematic areas, summarized and the results communicated narratively. DISCUSSION: It is anticipated that this review will reveal important literature gaps to guide future research to inform health policy decisions about ovarian, endometrial, and rare gynecological neoplasms in Africa. This review’s findings will be disseminated via peer review journals, conferences, and other social media such Twitter and LinkedIn. |
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spelling | pubmed-80453652021-04-14 Mapping evidence on ovarian, endometrial, vaginal, and vulva cancer research in Africa: a scoping review protocol Ninimiya, Sebastian Yidana Ansu-Mensah, Monica Bawontuo, Vitalis Kuupiel, Desmond Syst Rev Protocol BACKGROUND: Globally, cancer is generally recognized as a developmental threat yet most countries in Africa lack capacity to diagnose cancer especially gynecological cancers resulting in late detection and poor outcomes. However, most studies on gynecological cancers in Africa tend to focus on cervical cancer compared to the other gynecological cancers. Therefore, this scoping review will aim to describe the existing literature on the epidemiological burden of ovarian, endometrial, vaginal, and vulva cancers, their risk factors, and potential screening methods/techniques in Africa to identify priority research gaps for further research to inform health policy decisions. METHODS: The framework promulgated by Arksey and O’Malley and improved by Levac et al. will be used as a guide for this scoping review. A comprehensive search for relevant published studies in PubMed, CINAHL, SCOPUS, Google Scholar, and ScienceDirect with no date limitation to the last search date. The database search strategy will include keywords, Boolean operators, and medical subject heading terms. We will additionally consult the WHO/IARC website, IHME/Global Burden of Disease Study. A snowball approach will also be used to search the reference list of all included studies to obtain relevant papers for possible inclusion in this review. We will include articles that involve African countries, focused on ovarian, endometrial, vaginal, and vulva cancers, their risk factors, and potential screening methods/techniques in any language. We will exclude studies on cervical cancer and other cancers as well as review articles. The abstracts and full-text selection will be conducted by two independent reviewers using this review’s eligibility criteria as a guide. All the review selection tools, and the data extraction form will be pilot tested for accuracy and consistency. The data will be organized into thematic areas, summarized and the results communicated narratively. DISCUSSION: It is anticipated that this review will reveal important literature gaps to guide future research to inform health policy decisions about ovarian, endometrial, and rare gynecological neoplasms in Africa. This review’s findings will be disseminated via peer review journals, conferences, and other social media such Twitter and LinkedIn. BioMed Central 2021-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8045365/ /pubmed/33849664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01654-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Protocol Ninimiya, Sebastian Yidana Ansu-Mensah, Monica Bawontuo, Vitalis Kuupiel, Desmond Mapping evidence on ovarian, endometrial, vaginal, and vulva cancer research in Africa: a scoping review protocol |
title | Mapping evidence on ovarian, endometrial, vaginal, and vulva cancer research in Africa: a scoping review protocol |
title_full | Mapping evidence on ovarian, endometrial, vaginal, and vulva cancer research in Africa: a scoping review protocol |
title_fullStr | Mapping evidence on ovarian, endometrial, vaginal, and vulva cancer research in Africa: a scoping review protocol |
title_full_unstemmed | Mapping evidence on ovarian, endometrial, vaginal, and vulva cancer research in Africa: a scoping review protocol |
title_short | Mapping evidence on ovarian, endometrial, vaginal, and vulva cancer research in Africa: a scoping review protocol |
title_sort | mapping evidence on ovarian, endometrial, vaginal, and vulva cancer research in africa: a scoping review protocol |
topic | Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8045365/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33849664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13643-021-01654-0 |
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