Early experience after developing a pathology laboratory in Malawi, with emphasis on cancer diagnoses.

Early experience after developing a pathology laboratory in Malawi, with emphasis on cancer diagnoses.

Despite increasing cancer burden in Malawi, pathology services are limited. We describe operations during the first 20 months of a new pathology laboratory in Lilongwe, with emphasis on cancer diagnoses.We performed a cross-sectional study of specimens from the Kamuzu Central Hospital pathology labo...

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Main Authors: Satish Gopal, Robert Krysiak, N George Liomba, Marie-Josephe Horner, Carol G Shores, Noor Alide, Steve Kamiza, Coxcilly Kampani, Fred Chimzimu, Yuri Fedoriw, Dirk P Dittmer, Mina C Hosseinipour, Irving F Hoffman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3737192?pdf=render

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