Aastha Naik, Founder of Cancer.cure, Government Medical Officer at RH and CHC Dabhoi, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“3/4th of all cancer deaths will occur in LMICs by 2030 yet the research meant to save those lives is still largely being done elsewhere.
This isn’t just a gap in data. It’s a gap in whose suffering gets studied, whose outcomes get measured, and ultimately, whose lives get prioritized.
The TOM (Treatment Outcome Monitor) platform featured in this issue represents what global oncology collaboration should look like-clinicians from Guatemala, South Africa, Argentina, India, and MD Anderson sitting at the same table, designing a tool around the realities of resource limited settings i.e. unreliable internet, limited IT infrastructure, poor follow-up rates.
This is how we close the researchequity gap not by extracting data from LMICs, but by building the infrastructure that lets those health systems generate, own, and act on their own evidence.
Grateful to amplify this work!
Quoting UT MD Anderson‘s post:
“Access to data remains one of the major barriers limiting full participation in oncology research in low- and middle-income countries.
Volume 2, Issue 1 of Advances in Cancer Education and Quality Improvement highlights the work of health care professionals from UT MD Anderson, Guatemala, South Africa, Argentina, and India who collaborated to develop a user-friendly, cloud-based platform to support cancer outcome monitoring and data collection in resource-limited settings.
The issue also features projects advancing oncology through education and quality improvement, including the use of mixed-reality headsets in minimally invasive interventional radiology procedures and the development of an institutional interprofessional education program.”
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