City Cancer Challenge (C/Can) shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Cancer treatment can only begin once there’s a diagnosis. And a diagnosis is only as good as the laboratory behind it.
In Arequipa, Peru, improving the quality of pathology services is a core part of how the city is working to shorten the time between a patient’s first suspicion of cancer and the start of the right treatment.
A regional training course hosted by the Colegio Médico del Perú – Consejo Regional V Arequipa brought together technicians, biologists, medical technologists, pathologists, and students over four days, with more than 100 attendees and ten experts from Lima and Brazil leading sessions spanning the full spectrum: from foundational cytopathology and histopathology techniques to digital pathology, genomics, and quality management.
The course is one of the key outputs of C/Can‘s pathology project in Arequipa, which aims to standardise quality across all stages of anatomical pathology services and to build the multidisciplinary capacity that makes accurate and timely diagnosis possible.
What makes this work meaningful is the professionals who show up committed to doing better for their patients, and the local institutions that host and lead the change. That’s C/Can‘s model: working from the ground up, with the people who know their communities best.
Learn more about the project here.”
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