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Last October at the ASCP Annual Meeting in Long Beach, Calif., ASCP announced a groundbreaking global initiative: Partners for Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment in Africa. This effort will provide patients in underserved areas of Sub-Saharan Africa with access to rapid anatomic pathology cancer diagnostics and appropriate care and treatment.
The goal is to use digital slide technology and a cloud-based system to allow ASCP member pathologists to make histologic-based diagnoses of Sub-Saharan African patients, issue a report within 48 hours, and allow local providers to care for and treat the patients.
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) have become the leading cause of death in Sub-Saharan Africa. Increases in life expectancy, changes in diet and lifestyle, and a lower burden of communicable diseases promise to increase this cancer burden.1 Data from the …
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