Maheswari Jaganathan, Boon Hong Ang, Adibah Ali, Siti Zubaidah Sharif, Mazwela Mohamad, Azuddin Mohd Khairy, Kavitha Muniandy, Hani Zainal, Fizati Sabtu, Norija Sapiee, Nur Hidayati Zainal, Nur Fazilah Hanisah Zaipudin, Mallika Muniandi, Aini Fatimah Ghazali, France Olovia Roimin, Clara Ching Ling Chong, Nadia Rajaram, Nurshuhadah Jaafar, Rokayah Julaihi, Norlia Rahim, Nor Aniza Zakaria, Isabella Menon, Nurul Ain Tajudeen, Kah Yee Ho, Suryani Md Yusof, Mohamed Yusof Abdul Wahab, Imi Sairi Ab Hadi, Soo-Hwang Teo
PURPOSE: Breast cancer deaths disproportionately affect women living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Patient navigation has emerged as a cost-effective and impactful approach to enable women with symptoms or suspicious mammogram findings to access timely diagnosis and patients with breast cancer to access timely and appropriate multimodality treatment. However, few studies have systematically evaluated the impact of patient navigation on timeliness of diagnosis and treatment in LMICs...
March 2024: JCO global oncology