Cancer Care Terminology in African Languages.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Effective communication between patients and health care teams is essential in the health care setting for delivering optimal cancer care and increasing cancer awareness. While the significance of communication in health care is widely acknowledged, the topic is largely understudied within African settings.

Objective

To assess how the medical language of cancer and oncology translates into African languages and what these translations mean within their cultural context.

Design, setting, and participants

In this multinational survey study in Africa, health professionals, community health workers, researchers, and scientists involved in cancer care and research and traditional healers were invited to participate in an online survey on a voluntary basis throug

SUBMITTER: Simba H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11364996 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature