Taking on breast cancer in East Africa

Cancer survival in Africa, Asia, and Central America: a population-based study

2009 • 565 citations

Enabling the genomic revolution in Africa

2014 • 416 citations

Population Differences in Breast Cancer: Survey in Indigenous African Women Reveals Over-Representation of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

2009 • 353 citations

Status of radiotherapy resources in Africa: an International Atomic Energy Agency analysis

2013 • 271 citations

Cancer in Africa 2012

2014 • 267 citations

Breast cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: opportunities for prevention

2014 • 188 citations

Trends in the incidence of cancer in Kampala, Uganda 1991-2010

2013 • 183 citations

Trends in the incidence of cancer in the black population of Harare, Zimbabwe 1991–2010

2013 • 176 citations

Stage at breast cancer diagnosis and distance from diagnostic hospital in a periurban setting: A South African public hospital case series of over 1,000 women

2014 • 122 citations

Genetic Variation and Adaptation in Africa: Implications for Human Evolution and Disease

2014 • 115 citations

Breast-cancer screening with trained volunteers in a rural area of Sudan: a pilot study

2013 • 113 citations

Breast cancer survival in Ethiopia: A cohort study of 1,070 women

2013 • 110 citations

Supportive care after curative treatment for breast cancer (survivorship care): Resource allocations in low- and middle-income countries. A Breast Health Global Initiative 2013 consensus statement

2013 • 103 citations

Features of breast cancer in developing countries, examples from North-Africa

2014 • 103 citations

Breast cancer receptor status and stage at diagnosis in over 1,200 consecutive public hospital patients in Soweto, South Africa: a case series

2013 • 102 citations

Breast cancer characteristics and HIV among 1,092 women in Soweto, South Africa

2013 • 72 citations

Supportive care during treatment for breast cancer: Resource allocations in low- and middle-income countries. A Breast Health Global Initiative 2013 consensus statement

2013 • 69 citations

Mutation Screening of the BRCA1 Gene in Early Onset and Familial Breast/Ovarian Cancer in Moroccan Population

2013 • 65 citations

Is breast cancer from Sub Saharan Africa truly receptor poor? Prevalence of ER/PR/HER2 in breast cancer from Kenya

2014 • 63 citations

Mastectomy for management of breast cancer in Ibadan, Nigeria

2013 • 57 citations

Supportive and palliative care for metastatic breast cancer: Resource allocations in low- and middle-income countries. A Breast Health Global Initiative 2013 consensus statement

2013 • 55 citations

Economic analyses of breast cancer control in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review

2013 • 48 citations

Voluntary participation and comprehension of informed consent in a genetic epidemiological study of breast cancer in Nigeria

2014 • 45 citations

Breast cancer in pre-menopausal women in West Africa: Analysis of temporal trends and evaluation of risk factors associated with reproductive life

2013 • 43 citations

Risk factors for pregnancy-associated breast cancer: a report from the Nigerian Breast Cancer Study

2013 • 35 citations

Characteristics and presentation of patients with breast cancer in Rwanda

2013 • 35 citations

Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening and Associated Factors among Older Adult Women in South Africa

2014 • 35 citations

Seventeen years after BRCA1: what is the BRCA mutation status of the breast cancer patients in Africa? – a systematic review

2012 • 32 citations

Hormone Receptors and Her2 Expression in Breast Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa. A Comparative Study of Biopsies from Ghana and Norway

2014 • 25 citations

Breast cancer risk among women with long-standing lactation and reproductive parameters at low risk level: a case–control study in Northern Tanzania

2010 • 24 citations

Implementation of a breast cancer genetic service in South Africa – lessons learned

2013 • 23 citations

Breast cancer clinicopathological presentation, gravity and challenges in Eritrea, East Africa: Management practice in a resource-poor setting

2013 • 22 citations

Difference in Risk Factors for Breast Cancer by ER Status in an Indigenous African Population

2013 • 22 citations

The importance of survivors and partners in improving breast cancer outcomes in Uganda

2013 • 22 citations

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2016 • 20 citations

Assessment of diagnosis of inflammatory breast cancer cases at two cancer centers in <scp>E</scp>gypt and <scp>T</scp>unisia

2013 • 19 citations

Neo‐adjuvant Capecitabine Chemotherapy in Women with Newly Diagnosed Locally Advanced Breast Cancer in a Resource‐poor Setting (Nigeria): Efficacy and Safety in a Phase II Feasibility Study

2013 • 19 citations

Childhood leukaemia and lymphoma: African experience supports a role for environmental factors in leukaemogenesis

2014 • 18 citations

Impact of menstrual and reproductive factors on breast cancer risk in Tunisia: a case–control study

2013 • 14 citations

Cancer du sein chez la femme jeune de moins de 35 ans en Tunisie : étude rétrospective à propos de 124 cas

2013 • 11 citations

Screening for BRCA1 large genomic rearrangements in female Egyptian hereditary breast cancer patients

2013 • 7 citations

Résultats d’un essai pilote de dépistage de cancer du sein par mammographie dans la région de Sfax, Tunisie

2013 • 6 citations

Cancer in Africa: AORTIC 8th International Cancer Conference ‘Entering the 21st Century for Cancer Control in Africa’ 30.11.–2.12.2011

2012 • 4 citations