August 2015 – Representing the first published report of Multicentric Castleman disease in SSA, this article describes the characteristics and survival for HIV-associated Multicentric Castleman disease in Malawi.
May 2015 – Cervical cancer is the most common cancer among women in Malawi. Using pathological specimens from 630 Malawian, this study examines associations between various pathological findings and the presence of high-grade dysplasia.
May 2015 – HIV-associated Kaposi Sarcoma is the most common cancer in Malawi. This retrospective cohort study found that providing standard-of-care chemotherapy regimens from the developed world was both effective and feasible.
The UNC-Project Malawi lab was presented with four-star status by the Honorable Minister of Health. Congratulations to our staff there, especially to lab directors Gerald Tegha and Rob Krysiak.
March 2015 – Investigating the clinical profile of the most common female cancer in Africa, Malawian women with breast cancer were found to be young, have long symptom duration prior to diagnosis, and exhibit poorly differentiated tumors.
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases have received a $3.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
September 2014 – Using viral transcription profiling, this study demonstrates the existence of multiple subtypes of Kaposi Sarcoma lesions for the first time in HIV- and Kaposi Sarcoma-treatment-naive patients.
September 2014 – A case study highlighting the need to increase familiarity with multicentric Castleman’s disease among clinicians and pathologists in Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus endemic regions, and to develop high-quality diagnostic pathology services throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
July 2014 – A detailed description of HIV-associated lymphoma immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome using a uniformly applied case definition in the Center for AIDS Research Network of Integrated Clinical Systems Cohort.
March 2014 – With the help of a newly founded pathology laboratory, clinicians in Lilongwe, Malawi found cervical lymphadenopathy to be associated more with malignancy and less with tuberculosis than a previous study and recommend biopsy or FNA during early treatment.