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  • Breast, Cervical Cancers: Touring Team's Approach Protects Low-Income Nigerian Women

    July 27, 2022 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ota, Ogun State

    A medical outreach group called Quinta Health offers breast and cervical cancer screenings to women free of charge. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women globally. Quinta Health uses a strategic outreach plan to reach low-income community women in need of screening and trains medical professionals to provide the tests in surrounding cities.

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  • Bridge: The technological innovation reducing delays in breast cancer diagnosis

    July 19, 2022 |

    Daily Trust |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Bridge app helps reduce delays in accessing breast cancer diagnosis and improves health outcomes for women in rural areas. The app provides health workers with information on symptoms to look out for and how to perform exams in hopes to promote early breast cancer detection.

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  • In Cameroon, Poor People With Severe Albinism-related Skin Disorders Get Free Treatment

    June 28, 2022 |

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    Response Location: Cameroon, Bertoua

    Albicare for Cameroon works to fight cancer and provide palliative care to cancer patients and their families. The organization offers free skin cancer treatment, and operations, as well as educational services and consultations to those with albinism. Since its launch in 2020, Albicare has reached about 300 people living with albinism and performed 30 skin cancer operations.

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  • How cancer patients are getting funding for treatment in Nigeria

    June 03, 2022 |

    International Centre for Investigative Reporting |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Benue

    Project Pink Blue helps cancer patients access treatment by raising funds, training medical personnel, and connecting patients in need with sponsors through their Adopt a Patient initiative. Project Pink Blue has also advocated for better healthcare policies in the state and even provides jobs to cancer survivors to help integrate them back into society.

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  • These Doctors Are Using AI to Screen for Breast Cancer

    January 27, 2021 |

    Wired |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    With many women skipping routine mammograms due to COVID-19 restrictions, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital are using an artificial intelligence algorithm to identify those at risk for developing breast cancer. The approach has proved successful in multiple instances, with those flagged by the algorithm three times as likely to develop cancer. “What the AI tools are doing is they're extracting information that my eye and my brain can't,” a doctor using the tool explained.

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  • How Rwanda is improving uptake of HPV immunisation

    June 30, 2020 |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    To raise awareness about and increase rates of HPV immunization in Rwanda, a local vaccine alliance formed a partnership with a digital-minded nonprofit to better directly reach adolescent girls throughout the community. The nonprofit implemented messaging from the vaccine alliance into an existing "girl-centric" campaign and early results have indicated an increased awareness of cervical cancer while "Rwanda’s HPV and routine childhood diseases vaccination programs have achieved 95%-97% coverage."

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  • Uganda: Beauty pageant helping to fight skin cancer among persons with albinism

    May 24, 2020 |

    Minority Africa |

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    Response Location: Uganda, Kampala

    Beauty pageants in Uganda are helping to "create awareness for skin cancer among persons with albinism, educate them about their rights, as well as foster capacity development." Although challenges persist, participants and local dermatologists say that the campaign has helped to increase education and decrease discrimination against those with albinism.

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  • Cancer Support Group Helps Each Other During Quarantine

    April 06, 2020 |

    Spectrum News 1 SoCal |

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    Response Location: United States, Redondo Beach, California

    Immunocompromized individuals are under stricter guidelines to not leave their homes during the coronavirus because they are more susceptible to contracting the virus, but that can leave many feeling isolated. To manage that isolation for cancer patients, the nonprofit Cancer Support Community Redondo Beach is using online technology to connect community members through support groups.

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  • When a Medical Diagnosis is Complex, A Navigator Who Looks Like the Patient Can Make All the Difference

    March 04, 2020 |

    100 Days in Appalachia |

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    Response Location: United States, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

    Patient navigation, which uses community members as health care informants, is helping to break down social and cultural barriers to accessing care in a community in North Carolina. The navigators are "population-focused," meaning they work in the communities they are passionate about and can relate to in order "to provide culturally appropriate assistance." Since the implementation of the program, doctors at Wake Forest Baptist Health Comprehensive Cancer Center have reported that more patients are seeking care proactively.

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  • Repurposing Drugs to Fight Cancer

    February 25, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Studies have shown that some medications prescribed to help treat one ailment can also be used in combination with other drug therapies to treat additional or separate illnesses. Although there are barriers to enacting drug repurposing clinical trials, medical experts say that the benefit of using existing drugs is undoubtedly more efficient and "off-label prescribing is entirely legal."

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