Task Sharing and Shifting to Provide Pathology Diagnostic Services: The Kenya Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy Cytology and Bone Marrow Aspiration and Trephine Biopsy Training Program
Journal: Journal of Global Oncology
Date Published: November 6, 2018
ASAP Contributors: Shahin Sayed, Andrew Field, Zahir Moloo
ASAP in collaboration with the College of Pathologists of East, Central and Southern Africa (COPECSA) and Aga Khan University (AKU) held a successful 2.5 day workshop on cancer staging with over 20 pathologists from across the ECSA region and expert faculty from the United States, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
The workshop series, held November 16-18, 2018; at AKU in Nairobi, Kenya, featured the following cancers:
Head & Neck
Breast
Endometrial & Ovarian
Gastric & Esophageal.
The sessions consisted of short, 30 minute lectures covering the most important information for solving the cases, 2-hour sessions for completing cases in small groups, and a 1-hour session where challenging, local cases were reviewed by the expert faculty.