Breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: The current state and uncertain future

CA Anyigba, GA Awandare… - … Biology and Medicine, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Breast cancer is the commonest cause of global cancer-related deaths in women and a
public health burden in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Although the disease incidence in SSA …

[HTML][HTML] A scoping review: Facilitators and barriers of cervical cancer screening and early diagnosis of breast cancer in Sub-Saharan African health settings

AJ Pierz, TC Randall, PE Castle, A Adedimeji… - Gynecologic oncology …, 2020 - Elsevier
To address gaps in access to cervical cancer screening and early diagnosis of breast cancer
services in Sub-Saharan African (SSA), this scoping review was conducted to explore …

A step by step guide for choosing project topics and writing research papers in ICT related disciplines

S Misra - … and Applications: Third International Conference, ICTA …, 2021 - Springer
ICT is fast-growing and changing field. A lot of researches are being done in various area of
ICT, and results are presented in various platforms like conferences, journal and books. This …

A deep learning model using data augmentation for detection of architectural distortion in whole and patches of images

ON Oyelade, AE Ezugwu - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, 2021 - Elsevier
Breast cancer is now widely known to be the second most lethal disease among women.
Computer-aided detection (CAD) systems, deep learning (DL) in particular, have continued …

Assessment of breast self-examination practice and associated factors among female workers in Debre Tabor Town public health facilities, North West Ethiopia, 2018 …

AH Dagne, AD Ayele, EM Assefa - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Although breast Self-Examination is no longer tenable as a standard method to
detect early breast cancer, world health organization recommends breast self-examination …

Can the adoption of hypofractionation guidelines expand global radiotherapy access? An analysis for breast and prostate radiotherapy

OC Irabor, W Swanson, F Shaukat, J Wirtz… - JCO global …, 2020 - ascopubs.org
PURPOSE The limited radiotherapy resources for global cancer control have resulted in
increased interest in developing time-and cost-saving innovations to expand access to those …

A state-of-the-art survey on deep learning methods for detection of architectural distortion from digital mammography

ON Oyelade, AES Ezugwu - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Breast cancer is a type of cancer that has risen to be the second cause of death among
women. Classification of breast tissues into normal, benign, or malignant depends on the …

Evaluating polygenic risk scores for breast cancer in women of African ancestry

Z Du, G Gao, B Adedokun, T Ahearn… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) have been demonstrated to identify
women of European, Asian, and Latino ancestry at elevated risk of developing breast cancer …

Triple-negative breast cancer prevalence in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

SM Hercules, M Alnajar, C Chen, SM Mladjenovic… - BMJ open, 2022 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective The aggressive triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) subtype disproportionately
affects women of African ancestry across the diaspora, but its frequency across Africa has …

Clinical utility of genomic signatures in young breast cancer patients: a systematic review

C Villarreal-Garza, AS Ferrigno… - NPJ breast …, 2020 - nature.com
Risk stratification by genomic signatures has been shown to improve prognostication and
guide treatment decisions among patients with hormone-sensitive breast cancer. However …