Addressing the challenges of practicing breast cytology in a tertiary teaching hospital in Kenya
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Introduction Breast cancer accounted for 23.3% of all cancers in women in Kenya during the year 2000-2002 (1). Almost two thirds of these patients presented at advanced stages. Fine needle aspiration (FNA) can be a cost effective tool for an early and rapid diagnosis (2). Facilities for doing FNA are not available to a large population of patients due to shortage of skilled operators and cytopathologists. The limited numbers of existing pathologists try to cope with the burden of performing FNA procedures and interpretation in addition to their heavy histopathology workload. The Pathology Department at our University Hospital has been running an FNA clinic since 2005. A “One Stop Breast Clinic” at our hospital provides the triple test approach and FNA is often the first modality used in palpable lumps as part of an immediate assessment, so that patients could go home the same day with a diagAddressing the challenges of practicing breast cytology in a tertiary teaching hospital in Kenya
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