Publications by authors named "Badejo Olawale"
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- There is a significant lack of surgical capabilities to manage the increasing cancer care needs in West Africa, prompting the proposal for a surgical oncology fellowship training program.
- A comprehensive needs assessment was conducted using a mixed-methods approach, including surveys and site visits at eight leading cancer centers to evaluate current capabilities and educational needs.
- The findings, which included a SWOT analysis, revealed the existing clinical resources and developed a list of essential surgical procedures necessary for training, serving as a foundation for creating the fellowship program.
Background: A validated tool may facilitate assessing the severity of peritonitis among surgical patients. This study evaluates the predictive role of Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II (APACHE II) in the surgical outcomes of patients managed for peritonitis in Abuja.
Method: This is a prospective study of consecutive adult patients managed for peritonitis by the general surgery unit of National Hospital Abuja (NHA) over a 19-month period (September 2020 through March 2022).
The African Research Group for Oncology (ARGO) was formed in 2013 to undertake methodologically rigorous cancer research in Nigeria, and to strengthen cancer research capacity in the country through training and mentorship of physicians, scientists, and other healthcare workers. Here, we describe how ARGO's work in colorectal cancer (CRC) has evolved over the past decade. This includes the consortium's scientific contributions to the understanding of CRC in Nigeria and globally and its research capacity-building program.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Leisure-time physical activity(LTPA) is associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer, but this has less been investigated by cancer subtypes in Africans living in Sub-Saharan Africa(SSA). We examined the associations between LTPA and breast cancer including its subtypes in Nigerian women and explored the effect modification of body size on such associations.
Methods: The sample included 508 newly diagnosed primary invasive breast cancer cases and 892 controls from the Nigerian Integrative Epidemiology of Breast Cancer(NIBBLE) Study.
Purpose: Bean intake has been associated with reduced risk of breast cancer, however; only a few studies considered molecular subtypes status and none in African women living in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the associations between dietary intake of beans and breast cancer including its subtypes in Nigerian women.
Methods: Overall, 472 newly diagnosed patients with primary invasive breast cancer were age-matched (± 5 years) with 472 controls from the Nigerian Integrative Epidemiology of Breast Cancer (NIBBLE) Study from 01/2014 to 07/2016.
Breast cancer is now the commonest cancer in most sub-Saharan African countries. Few studies of the epidemiology and genomics of breast cancer and its molecular subtypes in these countries have been done. The African Female Breast Cancer Epidemiology (AFBRECANE) study, a part of the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) initiative, is designed to study the genomics and epidemiology of breast cancer and its molecular subtypes in Nigerian women.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Peptic ulcer disease (PUD) remains one of the most prevalent gastrointestinal diseases and has been linked to () infection. This condition may be suspected on clinical grounds, but diagnosis is established using upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.
Aims: To determine the correlation between the endoscopic and pathological findings among suspected PUD patients who have been referred for diagnostic upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in National Hospital Abuja.