Sophia Okeke
@so_fire_
🇳🇬 Medical Student @ibadanmedicine👩🏽‍⚕️||Global Oncology 🎗️ 🌍 || #ILookLikeASurgeon
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02-05-2015 09:29:22
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I admire people who quickly pick themselves up & keep running when they experience a major setback. It makes me wonder what we can teach children early about how to approach failing so that they don’t become adults who are so scared of failure that they freeze when faced with it.
🙏 to Havey Institute for Global Health for awarding us with the Catalyzer Grant to make financial navigation possible for cancer patients in Nigeria!Grateful to Peter Kingham @olatise @nwogu Lakeshore Cancer Center OAUTHC, Ile-Ife ARGO Research Northwestern Surgery Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Roswell Park Public Health & Medicine (IPHAM) @NorthwesternU
Two summary graphics in the AACR #CancerProgressReport 2024: A: The notable rise in early onset #ColorectalCancer incidence & mortality over the past 5y B: The expanding scope of #immunotherapy across solid cancers, still missing #PancreaticCancer. cancerprogressreport.aacr.org/wp-content/upl…
The high costs of anticancer therapies in the USA: challenges, opportunities and progress. nature.com/articles/s4157… nature Nature Cancer Nature Reviews Cancer NatureRevClinOncol #FinancialToxicity #CancerResearch #CancerCare Stacie Dusetzina @VUMCHemOnc Vanderbilt Health
Medical Tourism for Cancer Treatment: Trends, Trajectories, and perspectives from African Countries brnw.ch/21wOcHU Fidel Rubagumya , MD, MMed, MPH
Delays in Presentation, Diagnosis, and Treatment Among #GastrointestinalCancer Patients in Southwest Nigeria 🇳🇬 brnw.ch/21wOgYc Tina Onwuka Hilary Robbins #gicsm
VOICE OF HOPE: BREAST CANCER IN NIGERIA youtu.be/dJKC_uNQUMM?si… via YouTube This is an interesting documentary by Laila Johnson-Salami of ARISE NEWS #ChokeCancer Cc LakeshoreCancerCtr
Congratulations Parsa Erfani on your new article, “Advancing Global Pharmacoequity in Oncology.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jamao… #HealthEquity Dayo Fadelu
Today we Yemaachi Biotech announce the launch of The African Cancer Atlas in partnership with Roche. This is a significant milestone for African cancer research and will generate a database of 15K whole genomes that will be accessible to African scientists. businesswire.com/news/home/2025…
In Press: Cancer patients in Nigeria largely rely on out-of-pocket payments, limiting access to care. This review reveals gaps in cancer care financing in Africa’s most populous country and calls for urgent health policy reform. Sophia Okeke ow.ly/b6oF50WilUU @SKMaithel