Maria Hafez, Assistant Professor at St. Luke’s University Health Network, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Honored to have presented our work at the 2026 ESMO Breast Cancer Annual Congress in Berlin this week.
Breast cancer doesn’t pause for war. In Syria and similar settings, late-stage diagnosis is the norm, not because women don’t care, but because the system can’t reach them.
We tested whether a single telehealth education session could change that. It did:
- Large, durable knowledge gain (Cohen’s d = 1.92).
- Screening intent more than doubled.
- Doctor consultations tripled at 3 months.
This is what scalable looks like in low-resource oncology.
Thank you to my co-investigators and to the women who trusted us with their time.”
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