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Divina B. Esteban
Researcher at University of Manila
Publications - 2
Citations - 676
Divina B. Esteban is an academic researcher from University of Manila. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Breast cancer. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 605 citations.
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Cancer survival in Africa, Asia, and Central America: a population-based study
Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan,Rajaraman Swaminathan,Hermann Brenner,Kexin Chen,Kee Seng Chia,Jian Guo Chen,Stephen Ck Law,Yoon Ok Ahn,Yong-Bing Xiang,B B Yeole,Hai Rim Shin,Viswanathan Shanta,Ze Hong Woo,N. Martin,Yupa Sumitsawan,Hutcha Sriplung,Adolfo Ortiz Barboza,Sultan Eser,Bhagwan M. Nene,Krittika Suwanrungruang,Padmavathiamma Jayalekshmi,Rajesh Dikshit,Henry Wabinga,Divina B. Esteban,Adriano V. Laudico,Yasmin Bhurgri,Ebrima Bah,Nasser Al-Hamdan +27 more
TL;DR: Variations in survival correlated with early detection initiatives and level of development of health services, and emphasises the need for urgent investments in improving awareness, population-based cancer registration, early detection programmes, health-services infrastructure, and human resources.
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Outcome of screening by clinical examination of the breast in a trial in the Philippines
Paola Pisani,Donald Maxwell Parkin,Corazon A. Ngelangel,Divina B. Esteban,Lorna Gibson,Lorna Gibson,Marilou Munson,Mary Grace Reyes,Adriano V. Laudico +8 more
TL;DR: Although CBE undertaken by health workers seems to offer a cost‐effective approach to reducing mortality, the sensitivity of the screening programme in the real context was low and screen‐detected cases were non‐significantly less advanced than the others.