At the beginning of the week, CureCervicalCancer traveled to Kisumu, Kenya and held a meeting with all partners and key stakeholders in Kisumu county involved with cervical cancer prevention. This meeting included members of the Kenyan Ministry of Health, Kisumu Medical and Education Trust (KMET), International Cancer Institute, the Family AIDS Care and Education Services...
Today we completed our “See & Treat” training. Together with the newest Global Trainees and our facilitators (some who have been previous Global Trainees themselves) we screened 407 women. We referred 10 patients who were suspicious for cancer and treated 9 with cryotherapy. This “See & Treat” training program will launch the beginning of CCC’s...
Last Summer, my cousin Dr. Patricia Gordon was nominated for the distinguished alumni award at her old, and my local high school for her notable work founding the CCC. She delivered a beautiful, and inspiring speech at the graduation ceremony, and I listened in absolute awe of the aspiration and intent of the project. I...
Today marks the final day of our weeklong training program at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center in Moshi, Tanzania. It has been such a pleasure to watch the progress of each of our twelve trainees as they’ve mastered the “See & Treat” procedure. The rate at which their confidence and competent has grown has been...
Today was an extremely special day in the CCC “See & Treat” training program in Moshi for two reasons. First, we screened a whopping 224 patients. This number is a great indication that our trainees are learning the ins and outs of the procedure as well as applying creative problem solving. Due sheer patient volume,...
Days 2 and 3 were incredible examples of the classic CCC “See & Treat” training model. On day 2 we were able to screened 109 women and perform 2 cryotherapy in 5 hours within this one room. On day 3 we screened 182 women! Each of our 4 stations screening for cervical cancer was held...
Karibu! This word, which means welcome in Swahili, is the greeting we heard countless times today, the first day of our “See & Treat” training program at the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC) in Moshi, Tanzania. We were welcomed with a beautiful ceremony held in the presence of the Bishop in honor of the many...
After four short days, our screening program on Ukerewe Island has drawn to a close. To celebrate the occasion, as well as the day’s highest patient volume of the week, we conducted a ceremonial graduation and a clinic dedication to the CureCervicalCancer Board of Directors. Having made a special announcement of CCC’s free screening services...
On June 29th, CCC will be packing their “Clinic In A Suitcase” and traveling to Tanzania in partnership with a team of residents and medical students from UC Irvine. Objectives of the trip are to revisit and resupply their two existing clinics and to establish a new clinic where they will train more local health...
Team A Only 6 months after establishing the “ambitious 11” clinics in the north and northeast departments of Haiti, the CureCervicalCancer Team is back to reeducate and resupply. Due to the large number of sites and long distances to be traveled, we split into two teams and began this project. Team A led by Dr....
