Dr. Yehoda Martei
Dr. Yehoda Martei is a medical oncologist at the University of Pennsylvania, with a research focus in global oncology.
Africa’s cancer healthcare workforce is overworked and under-supported
Research published today in Infectious Agents and Cancer reports alarming disparities in the workload of oncologists in Africa compared to other parts of the world. In this blog Dr. Yehoda Martei, one of the co-authors of the research, discusses why this is a huge issue for both cancer treatment and diagnosis in African countries and the oncologists themselves.
Research demonstrates that the burden of cancer is increasing in low- and middle-income countries, with a disproportionate burden of mortality- to- incidence ratio in Africa. Although this trend is forecasted to increase by 2030, there is a paucity of real-world data on the capacity of the oncology workforce, providing cancer care to the increasing number of cancer patients being diagnosed annually in Africa.
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