Approaching global oncology : the win-win model / edited by Ahmed Elzawawy, Wilfred Ngwa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elzawawy, Ahmed, author.

Ngwa, Wilfred, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 22.

IOP series in global health and radiation oncology.

IOP ebooks. 2022 collection.

[IOP release $release]

IOP series in global health and radiation oncology

IOP ebooks. [2022 collection]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer--Treatment.

Cancer.

Oncology.

Neoplasms--therapy.

Medical Oncology.

Medical Subjects:

Neoplasms--therapy.

Medical Oncology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

Ahmed Elzawawy MD PHD is a Professor at Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt, and Chairman of the Alsoliman Clinical and Radiation Oncology Centre, Port Said, Egypt. Wilfred Ngwa is Director of the Global Health Catalyst launched at Harvard in 2015 for catalyzing high impact international collaborations to reduce health disparities in the USA and globally.

Summary:

The gap between the required and the available cancer care widened in the last decade for the majority of cancer patients in the world. The Editors and experts who contributed to this book present how there is a need for global approaches and campaign for the scientific exploration of avenues to increase affordability of better value cancer treatment for millions of cancer patients in the world.

Contents:

Foreword / by Sir Professor Muir Gray

Keynote / by Her Royal Highness Princess Dina Mired

Keynote speech / by HRH Princess Dina Mired

part I. The win-win movement to increase affordability of better value cancer care in the world. 1. The needs, the objective, the notions, and approaches of the win-win movement / Ahmed Elzawawy

2. The need for a cost-effective international campaign to increase the clinical oncology services in the world / Ahmed Elzawawy

3. The win-win modified blue ocean strategy / Ahmed Elzawawy

4. How both high-income and low- and middle-income country institutions can win in global oncology / Omoruyi Irabor and Wilfred Ngwa

5. Mobilization of resources for cancer care services in low- and middle-income countries and Africa : myths, realities, and hopes / Ahmed Elzawawy

6. Top challenges in cancer care in the 3rd decade of the 21st century / Ahmed Elzawawy, Wil Ngwa, David Kerr, Twalib Ngoma, Manar Montasser and Eduardo Cazap

7. Turning the impact of COVID-19 on cancer care into a positive / Eduardo Cazap, Ahmed Elzawawy, David Kerr, Wil Ngwa, Twalib Ngoma, Manar Montasser and Tabaré Vázquez

8. Main global health catalyst networks and means / Wilfred Ngwa and Ahmed Elzawawy

9. Publications and dissemination / Ahmed Elzawawy, Eduardo Cazap, David Kerr and Wilfred Ngwa, with contributors : Gemma Alderton,Riccardo Audisio, Danny Burke, David Collingridge, Jessica Fricchione, Allison Landman, Gilberto Lopez, Richard Sullivan and Anthony Zietman

part II. Global health catalyst win-win channels. 10. Ecancer for all and the Global Oncology University (the GO-U) / Wilfred Ngwa, Ahmed Elzawawy, Stephen Avery, David Kerr, Eduardo Cazap, Riccardo Audisio, Golam Abo Zakaria, Bashkim Zeberi, Nicholas Abinya, Luca Incrocci, Lydia Asana, William Swanson, Omoruyi Irabor, Saiful M. Huq and Twalib Ngoma

11. Africa-Oxford-Harvard/Hopkins Cancer Research and Clinical Trials Consortium (AFROX-H2 Clinical Trials Network) / David Kerr, Twalib Ngoma, Wil Ngwa, Ahmed Elzawawy, Dennis Palmer, Francine Kouya, Paul Mobit, Verna Vanderpuye, N.A. Othieno-Abinya, Atara Ntekim and Paul Ruff

12. The win-win ambassadors / Luca Incrocci

13. Key steps for youth inclusion in global health efforts / Lydia Asana, Marielle Ngamije, Ntami Echeng, Victoria Ainsworth and Andres Diaz

part III. Scientific resource-saving and better value cancer treatment approaches : the first wing of the Win-Win International Scientific Initiative. 14. A general overview for scientific resource-saving and better-value cancer treatment approaches / Ahmed Elzawawy

15. Examples of scientific explorations for resource-saving better-value cancer drug systemic therapy / Ahmed Elzawawy

16. Examples of scientific explorations of resource saving for better value in radiotherapy : breast cancer as a model / Ahmed Elzawawy and Wilfred Ngwa

17. Challenges for radiotherapy accessibility in the post-COVID-19 era in low- and middle-income countries : strategies to maximize available resources with minimum cost escalation / Niloy R. Datta, Sneha Datta and Massoud Samiei

18. Innovation : low-cost radiotherapy machines and novel ring-based compensator intensity-modulated radiation therapy / Eric Ford, Bishwambhar Sengupta and Kyuhak Oh

19. Innovation : lowering the cost of image guidance in radiation therapy using low-dose megavoltage imaging-cone beam CT for accurate radiation therapy delivery / Ross Berbeco

20. Smart radiotherapy biomaterials for combining radiotherapy and immunotherapy / Michele Moreau, Sayeda Yasmin-Karim, Victoria Ainsworth, Romy Mueller, Bashkim Ziberi and Wilfred Ngwa

21. Improving access to radiotherapy in LMICs through a collaborative initiative to reduce technology downtime / Taofeeq A. Ige, Alexander Jenkins, Manjit Dosanjh, Donna O'Brien, David Pistenmaa and C. Norman Coleman

22. Research collaboration to advance cancer prevention and control in Africa / James Alaro

23. Repurposing and repositioning drugs and devices in cancer care / Ahmed Elzawawy

24. The opportunity to repurpose research in low- and lower-middle-income countries / Clare Thibodeaux

25. PredictCARE : personalized complication risk prediction tool / Elizabeth Charlotte Moser and Gayatri Nayaran

part IV. Mobilization of different resources, win-win collaborations and partnerships. 26. Engaging the diaspora to advance global health / Lydia Asana, Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Melvin Foote, Sulma Mohammed and Wilfred Ngwa

27. Win-win in Latin America. Collaboration with the Latin American and Caribbean Society of Medical Oncology. Partnerships and projects / Eduardo Cazap

28. Collaboration with the European Society of Surgical Oncology / Riccardo A. Audisio and Tibor Kovacs

29. Partnership with ecancer / Eduardo Cazap, Danny Burke, Lara Finan and Katie Foxall

30. Perspectives from the Balkans / Bashkim Ziberi, Gazmend Nafezi, Ilir Ismaeli, Suzana Manxhuka-Këliu, Ana Ugrinska, Shaban Memeti, Vildane Goga çmega, Arben Bislimi and Wilfred Ngwa

31. Win-win collaborations with governments / Wilfred Ngwa, Omoruyi Credit Irabor and Diane Gashumba

32. The South Asia Centre for Medical Physics and Cancer Research : its activities and collaboration with the Global Health Catalyst / Mohammad Ullah Shemanto, Hasin Anupama Azhari and Golam Abu Zakaria

part V. Perspectives of leading industries of equipment of radiation therapy and informatics systems and the win-win movement

33. Perspectives of Varian, a Siemens Healthineers Company as a leading manufacturer of radiation therapy equipment / Dow Wilson, Andy Whitman, Kevin Massoudi, Julia Sheely-Chan and Valerie Sinden

34. Cancer does not discriminate between the rich and the poor : precision radiation medicine for everyone everywhere / Habib Nehme

part VI. Examples of initiatives and actions. 35. The International Cancer Expert Corps (ICEC) : a 'Winn' model solution with the exponential growth necessary for global cancer care / C. Norman Coleman, Manjit Dosanjh, Donna O'Brien and Miles A Pomper

36. Solar-powered radiotherapy / Ralf Müller-Polyzou and Holger Wirtz

37. Helping African radiotherapy centers to overcome staff challenges : experience in Mozambique / Iracelma Neto, Sara Velha, André Lucas, Sara Navarro, Daniel Gonçalves, Catarina Souto and Francisco Alves

38. Rwanda Cancer Centre / Felix Sinzabakira and Pacifique Mugenzi

39. The radiation oncology center in Kutaisi, Georgian Republic / Krystyna Kiel

40. Building capacity to control cervical cancer in Nigeria : a case study / Isaac F. Adewole, T.A.O. Oluwasola and I.O. Morhason-Bello

41. Win-win collaborations initiative examples in Nigeria, Cameroon, and Pakistan / Wilfred Ngwa, Kingsley Ndoh, Francine Kouya, Dennis Palmer, Fiza Shaukat and Sumera Butt

42. Financing solutions for sustainable cancer control increase the availability of novel radiotherapy : a proposal from Uruguay, South America / Alvaro Luongo-Céspedes

43. Cancer control efforts : the Kenyan situation today / Nicholas A. Othieno-Abinya

44. Global health catalyst summits / Lydia Asana, Noella Bih, Romy Mueller, Jana Wood, Ahmed Elzawawy and Wilfred Ngwa

part VII. Future directions. 45. Final notes and future directions / Ahmed Elzawawy and Wilfred Ngwa.

Notes:

"Version: 20220601"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 5, 2022).

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ISBN:

9780750330756

9780750330749

OCLC:

1336503031

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