September 2016 – Results of a two-year collaboration between Kamuzu Central Hospital and the University of North Carolina to establish a pathology laboratory in Lilongwe, Malawi, showing high concordance between real-time diagnoses in Malawi and final diagnoses in the US.
July 2016 – To make early detection of breast cancer in Malawi possible, training laywomen to screen seems to be a viable option. 1000 examinations provide the evidence that the quality of these screening compares to screenings performed by clinicians.
June 2016 – This paper describes a paediatric cohort of patients with Burkitt lymphoma, the most prevalent paediatric cancer in Malawi. Using the more intense CHOP-regimen to treat those patients did not improve the outcome significantly.
April 2016 – This opinion piece describes the disparities between cancer prevention and treatment in Malawi versus in the developed world, and questions the ethics of funding health care through academic grants.
March 2016 – Description of a clinical breast exam training program administered to laywomen in Malawi. Participants who completed training demonstrated competency in conducting clinical breast exams and delivering breast cancer educational talks.
March 2016 – With no previous prospective studies of aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma treated with CHOP in sub-Saharan Africa, results of this study suggest that CHOP can be safe, effective, and feasible for treating aggressive NHL among HIV+/- individuals in Malawi.
December 2015 – Representing the first published comparison of bone marrow eosinophil density between patients from SSA and a developed nation, this study shows an increased density among patients in Malawi compared to patients in the US.
December 2015 – Breast cancer screening with mammography for early detection of breast cancer is recommended in high-income countries, but in low- and middle income countries the risk/benefit ratio might be different.
October 2015 – To implement breast cancer screening in Malawi, it is important to have information about the preferences of women concerning this service. This paper describes a discrete choice experiment, to find out what attributes are relevant for patients. Travel time, health encounter, health worker type and sex, and detection strategy were the most … Read more
September 2015 – Exploring environmental factors associated with oesophageal cancer in Malawi, Firewood cooking, cigarette smoking, and use of white maize flour all had strong associations with squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus.