ArticleAnnals of global health2023
Potential New Approaches for Prostate Cancer Management in Resource-Limited Countries in Africa.
Article in Annals of global health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Prognostic value of platelet to lymphocyte ratio in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Pooled it
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- Knowledge about prostate cancer and screening among men attending Kibogora Level Two Teaching Hospital.Canadian oncology nursing journal = Revue canadienne de nursing oncologique · 2026Article
- Prostate cancer in low- and middle-income countries - challenges and opportunities.Prostate cancer and prostatic diseases · 2025Review
- Prostate cancer diagnosis and management: current practices in Africa a consultant-based survey.Frontiers in urology · 2025Article
- A hospital-based study of prostate biopsy results in Indian males.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2024Article
- What should be the future direction of development in the field of prostate cancer with lung metastasis?World journal of clinical oncology · 2023Article
- Analysis of genetic biomarkers, polymorphisms in ADME-related genes and their impact on pharmacotherapy for prostate cancer.Cancer cell international · 2023Review
- Analysis of Clinical Trials and Review of Recent Advances in Therapy Decisions for Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer.Journal of personalized medicine · 2023Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Prostate cancer is a major male malignancy in many sub-Saharan countries in Africa. Because of resource limitations, screening, early detection, diagnosis, and curative treatments are not available for many men on the subcontinent, and there are even barriers to the treatment of advanced-stage metastatic prostate cancer. We are making the case for new approaches to the detection, diagnosis, and treatment of this malignancy in sub-Saharan Africa and other low-resource regions-approaches that differ from the ones available and used in high-income countries. The development of one-step dipstick-type detection assays of serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) offers an approach to prostate cancer detection, treatment and monitoring that circumvents issues related to laboratory quality control and is also low-cost. Curative-intent treatments of early-stage prostate cancer are often unavailable in low-resource contexts, and most prostate cancers are not detected in Africa until they are at an advanced stage. Hence, androgen deprivation treatments, including orchiectomy and older low-cost drugs, offer feasible and affordable approaches to prolong survival and sustain a reasonable quality of life. However, clinical trials are needed to identify which of these androgen deprivation treatments are most efficacious and best tolerated to make progress in providing medical care for men with prostate cancer in sub-Saharan Africa and other low- and lower-middle-income areas around the world.
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