Fight against cancer in Portuguese-speaking African countries: echoes from the last cancer meetings

Autor: Lúcio Lara Santos, Hirondina Borges Spencer, Fernando Miguel, Satish Tulsidás, Belmira Rodrigues, Lygia Vieira Lopes

Publikováno v: Infectious Agents and Cancer, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2019)

Abstract Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa include Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Principe. These countries belong to an interstate organization known as PALOP. In June 2018, PALOP organized a cancer meeting in Pr

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Establishing of cancer units in low or middle income african countries: angolan experience - a preliminary report

Autor: Fernando Miguel, Ana Vaz Conceiééo, Lygia Vieira Lopes, Dora Bernardo, Fernando Monteiro, Fernanda Bessa, Cristina Santos, Joéo Blasques Oliveira, Lucio Lara Santos

Publikováno v: The Pan African Medical Journal, Vol 19, Iss 291 (2014)

INTRODUCTION: the number of cancer cases and related deaths worldwide is expected to double over the next 20-30 years. African countries will be the most affected by the burden of cancer. The improving economic situation of Angola creates conditions

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/81a61eb12f4049a289fdda7b9f6e1cf1

Prehabilitation program for African sub-Saharan surgical patients is an unmet need?

Autor: Nilton Caetano Rosa, Jotamo Come, Victor Costa, Antero Fernandes, Daniel Moreira-Gonçalves, Lygia Vieira Lopes, Lúcio Lara Santos, Paulo Costa

Publikováno v: Pan African Medical Journal; Vol. 36 No. 1 (2020)
The Pan African Medical Journal

Approximately 4.2 million people worldwide die within 30 days of surgery each year. Half of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. Postoperative deaths account for 7.7% of all deaths globally, making it the third-highest contributor

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https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.62.21203

Breast cancer in Angola, molecular subtypes: a first glance

Autor: Teresina Amaro, C. Leal, Paula Lopes, Carlos Lopes, Eduardo Ferreira, Fernando Miguel, Cristina Santos, Lygia Vieira Lopes, Alexis Fuentes Pelaez, Emília Ribas, Lúcio Lara Santos

Publikováno v: ecancermedicalscience

Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate the breast cancer (BC) molecular subtypes according to its surrogate immunohistochemistry (IHC) markers. We conducted a preliminary study, to correlate the clinical pathological profiles and molecular

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http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5574661

Stage at presentation of breast cancer in Luanda, Angola - a retrospective study

Autor: Helga Freitas, Clara Castro, Lygia Vieira Lopes, Gonçalo Forjaz Lacerda, Elisabete Weiderpass, Salvador Pangui, Fernando Miguel, Adhemar Longatto-Filho, Lúcio Lara Santos, António Tavares

Publikováno v: Web of Science
Repositório Institucional da UNESP
Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
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Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal
Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP)
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BMC Health Services Research

Background: It is expected that, by 2020, 15 million new cases of cancer will occur every year in the world, one million of them in Africa. Knowledge of cancer trends in African countries is far from adequate, and improvements in cancer prevention ef

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https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-015-1092-9