Publications by authors named "Abiola F Ibraheem"
ASCO is a global professional society representing more than 50,000 physicians, other health care professionals, and advocates in over 100 countries specializing in cancer treatment, diagnosis, prevention, and advocacy. ASCO strives, through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality of patient care, to create a world where cancer is prevented or cured, and every survivor is healthy. In this pursuit, health equity remains the guiding institutional principle that applies to all its activities across the cancer care continuum.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: There are strategies to bring quality cancer care to underserved patients, but poor use of the principles of teamwork is a major barrier to achieving quality services. The intent of this study was to assess teamwork as perceived by health care workers caring for patients with cancer.
Methods: We conducted a survey among health care professionals in cancer care at 3 tertiary centers in southwestern Nigeria from July to November 2016.
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- The Oncotype DX recurrence score (RS) helps determine chemotherapy options for women with hormone receptor-positive, HER2-negative breast cancer, with limited benefit noted among those aged ≥50 with RS 11-25.
- A study analyzed data from 73,185 women with stage I-III breast cancer (RS 11-30), revealing chemotherapy reduced death risk significantly for lymph node-positive patients, while lymph node-negative patients had mixed outcomes based on RS levels.
- The study concluded that the effectiveness of chemotherapy correlates with RS, showing that higher scores yield greater survival benefits, highlighting the importance of real-world data for treatment decisions.