Society of Oncology and Cancer Research of Nigeria (SOCRON)

05/11/2024

Dr. Sally Adebamowo has been officially appointed as interim co-leader of the Population Sciences Program at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center (UMGCCC), a move recently confirmed by the Executive Scientific Advisory Committee (ESAC) and the Nationa...

23/09/2024

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2315735121

Is there a formula for a competitive NIH grant application? The Serenity Prayer may provide one: "Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cann...

09/09/2024

The Union for International Cancer Control will soon face another momentous choice. Once again, we shall decide who will serve the UICC as President-Elect and thereafter assume office with a mandate to lead the global effort to reduce the global cancer burden. I am thankful to have been shortlisted....

03/07/2024

Eating traditional Nigeria diet - e.g. Amala, Gbegiri is generally healthy. But the growing trend to eat outside the home thratens that. The most healthy vegetables (cruciferous vegetables, fresh, not boiled to death) are essentially missing from Nigerian diet - https://cdn.nutrition.org/article/S2475-2991(24)00695-4/fulltext Fogarty International Center University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center Center for Bioethics and Research Our most recent analysis of Nigerian diet using Global Diet Quality Score

25/05/2024

Paul was a strong supporter of the bioethics training program in Nigeria. He supported our efforts to make *free online bioethics training available to biomedical researchers in Nigeria*. Because he believed and trusted, over 150,000 CITI bioethics courses, Nigeria-specific module, and general research capacity building courses have been done by through the Center for Bioethics and Research portal. Adieu Paul. Good night. CITI Program National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty International Center

Dr. Braunschweiger co-founded CITI Program to meet the crucial need for training in the ethical conduct of research involving humans and animals.

23/05/2024

Data science and artificial intelligence are novel technologies that will radically affect health research globally. To ensure that African countries benefit and address emerging data gap without exposing their citizens to needless harm, we studied the legal and ethical systems in Nigeria as a paradigmatic example of how to provide ethical oversight for use these technologies in health research. https://ai.nejm.org/stoken/default+domain/CRNPJVUNCNTVEUZUFE7Y/full?redirectUri=/doi/full/10.1056/AIpc2400033
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Fogarty International Center Center for Bioethics and Research University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center National Institutes of Health (NIH)National Cancer Institute

Data science health research is an innovative research method that holds great promise for improving health care access and delivery in African countries. However, the digital equity gap that exist...

18/04/2024

https://www.insideprecisionmedicine.com/topics/oncology/researchers-identify-genetic-variants-linked-to-persistent-hpv-infection/

University of Maryland researchers have identified genetic mutations associated with persistent HPV infection which can lead to cervical cancer

16/03/2024

This is another of those - "Phew! That took a while" papers. We report the development, reproducibility, and validation of Food Frequency Questionnaire (FFQ) and Food Picture Book (FPB) for Nigerian adults. These tools would be useful for anyone interested in conducting research on associations between eating Nigerian foods and specific diseases*, e.g. is long term consumption of ogbonor soup linked with erectile dysfunction, or is long term consumption of Nigerian palm oil soup linked with sudden cardiac deaths. You can find the paper here https://cdn.nutrition.org/article/S2475-2991(24)00069-6/fulltext Copyright access will be through the University of Maryland Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. Congratulations to everyone involved. Fogarty International Center Center for Bioethics and Research National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Teaser text. We developed, reproduced, and validated FFQ and FPB. We highlight the need to account for portion sizes and seasonality in nutrition epidemiology studies in Nigeria.

14/02/2024

"Validation of self-report of uterine fibroid diagnosis using a transvaginal ultrasound scan" received 768 downloads since its publication in June 2023! Access the article here:

Self-report of uterine fibroids (UF) has been used for epidemiologic research in different environments. Given the dearth of studies on the epidemiology of UF in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), it is valuable to evaluate its performance as a potential tool for much needed research on this common neoplasm....

23/01/2024

Eat well and take your multivitamins 🤣

Serum concentration of folate was inversely associated with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and cervical cancer in some studies. The association be…

10/01/2024

This took a while to see the light of day. My deep gratitude to all the collaborators and participants in the project. Special thanks to Sally for enduring the headwinds of multiple journal reviews.

Genetic variants that underlie susceptibility to cervical high-risk human papillomavirus (hrHPV) infections are largely unknown. We conducted discovery genome-wide association studies (GWAS), replication, meta-analysis and colocalization, generated polygenic risk scores (PRS) and examined....

07/12/2023

https://www.facebook.com/scientificreports is welcoming submissions of original research to a cervical cancer and human papillomavirus collection.