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In much of Africa and South Asia there is about one pathologist per million people, so the pathologist, not the tissue sample, is the diagnostic bottleneck. A slide scanner in each district lab, routing images to a pooled roster of pathologists including diaspora volunteers, could give a diagnosis in days instead of months; the gap is scale and financing.
The bottleneck for cancer diagnosis in much of Africa and South Asia is the pathologist, not the tissue sample. Whole-slide scanners now cost a fraction of what they did, and pathology images travel well. A national or regional network would standardise tissue processing at district labs, scan every slide, route to a shared roster of pathologists (including diaspora volunteers and partner institutions), and track turnaround time as the primary metric. Several pilot networks exist; the gap is scale and sustainable financing.
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