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Reporting and notes on cancer research, people and institutions across Africa.

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  1. Note

    Test: HPV vaccination in Malawi

    A test note that links to Malawi, where AJCR has not yet published research.

  2. Journal news

    Briefing becomes AJCR's news and features page

    Profiles, conversations, explainers and short notes now sit alongside journal news.

  3. Behind the paper

    Making palliative care part of the oncology visit

    The authors of AJCR's Lusaka trial on how a clinic-based model moved palliative review from the end of the pathway to the second week, and what a synthetic dataset can and cannot show.

    · 2 min read

  4. Note

    Observatory views now have their own links

    Every country, institution and researcher in the Observatory can now be opened from a link.

  5. Conversation

    Five questions on cancer registries with Selam Bekele

    A registry is only as good as the records it can join up. The lead author of AJCR's Addis Ababa linkage study on duplicates, missing deaths and why a person still checks the uncertain matches.

    · 2 min read

  6. Note

    Cervical cancer elimination: the 90–70–90 targets

    WHO's 2030 targets for vaccination, screening and treatment.

  7. Profile

    Naledi Maseko and the case for local genomic data

    A breast cancer researcher at the University of Cape Town on why tumour profiles from African patients change what clinicians can act on, and why she also works on registries.

    · 2 min read

  8. Note

    Childhood cancer: the 60% survival goal

    WHO's target for children with cancer, and one reason it is hard to reach.

  9. Explainer

    What AI can and cannot do in cancer pathology

    Algorithms that read digitised slides are moving from research into hospitals. A short guide to what they need, where they help and where caution is due.

    · 2 min read

  10. Explainer

    One issue, twelve countries: reading the first research network

    AJCR's inaugural issue links twelve institutions in twelve countries. What the Observatory shows, and what it does not.

    · 1 min read

  11. Journal news

    Volume 1, Number 1 is published

    AJCR's inaugural issue is online, with two opening letters and twelve synthetic research articles from authors in twelve African countries.