Quality Pathology and Laboratory Diagnostic Services are Key to Improving Global Health Outcomes: Improving Global Health Outcomes is Not Possible Without Accurate Disease Diagnosis
Journal:American Journal of Clinical Pathology
Date Published: March 1, 2015
Contributors: African Strategies for Advancing Pathology Members
Quality Pathology and Laboratory Diagnostic Services are Key to Improving Global Health Outcomes: Improving Global Health Outcomes is Not Possible Without Accurate Disease Diagnosis
Journal: American Journal of Clinical Pathology
Date Published: March 1, 2015
Contributors: African Strategies for Advancing Pathology Group Members
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.