The Kebeza ecosystem
Awareness brings someone to care. A prepared specimen reaches a specialist. A patient knows what to do next. Evidence can improve the next journey, with the right permissions.
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Select a layer for its role, current status and related projects. See how these parts could support the future Cancer Intelligence System.
The Kebeza Project explains cancer concerns in Luganda and English. Cancer Check helps people organise symptoms and find a next step. Outreach and screening camps connect awareness to assessment.
Collection, preparation and staining make remote review possible. Regional experience with affiliated clinics spans Mbale Pathology Clinic, JPC Pathology Clinic in Jinja and Oak Pathology Clinic in Arua, alongside trained operators and cytotechnologists.
PathEdge is being developed to coordinate acquisition, remote review, second opinions and quality assurance across cytology and histology. Pathologists interpret and sign final reports.
Rosemary operates within pathology services at Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda. It helps patients check result readiness, request FNAC appointments and navigate services. Further referral and follow-up coordination is planned.
Image and glass-slide rereads, discrepancy review and prospective evaluation would test the workflows. APIR, the head-and-neck registry and cervical screening studies form the proposed evidence programme.
The proposed African Precision Oncology Atlas would bring pathology, clinical and molecular findings together with reviewed evidence for human-supervised oncology and tumour-board workflows.
Research direction
Connect the work of diagnosis with the evidence needed for the next decision. The proposed architecture builds on physical services, PathEdge’s development and Rosemary’s patient-access role.
Local collection, preparation and staining. Cytology and histology need suitable specimens and trained teams.
Clinical servicesAcquisition, specialist review, quality assurance and reporting. Qualified pathologists retain final sign-out.
Specialist workflowResult-status checks, appointment requests and service navigation. A patient-access layer for the next step.
Patient accessReport preparation, acquisition and documentation checks, and multilingual navigation.
Retrieve relevant evidence and organise approved pathology, clinical and molecular context for tumour-board and precision-oncology review.
Agentic support would coordinate these tasks, show its sources and flag missing information for a clinician to review.
Test quality, reliability and specialist workload. Introduce validated improvements to the service after the required review and approvals.
The aim is to make relevant information easier for clinical teams to use: a better-prepared report, a missing detail brought to attention, or evidence ready for a tumour-board discussion. The African Precision Oncology Atlas is one proposed programme within this broader direction.
Explore the precision-oncology directionPublic-hospital records remain institution-governed. Patient data are not offered for sale.
Discuss an evaluation or research packageWhat is happening, and what comes next
Clinical work informs the next stage: evaluated acquisition, specialist coordination and governed evidence.
Regional cytology experience, Rosemary within Mulago pathology services, and public education in Luganda and English.
Scanner-agnostic coordination, reporting and quality review. PathEdge is founder-funded and pre-revenue. Multilingual access improvements are in development.
Retrospective and prospective image/glass review, cervical screening and triage studies, governed registries and pathway feasibility. Subject to institutional and ethics approvals.
APOA and future precision-oncology support would connect permissioned clinical, pathology and molecular evidence for oncology teams.
Kebeza Project · Education in development
Generative video, Blender-based scientific visualisation and interactive 3D medical education are development ambitions for explaining cancer and diagnostic pathways.
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Proposed retrospective work would retrieve historical remote-cytology records, images and glass slides where available. Blinded rereads, a second independent pathologist and histology correlation where available would test the evidence.
Parallel proposals include HPV self-collection validation, p16/Ki-67 triage and same-day cytology feasibility. Histology acquisition and reporting remain part of Kebeza’s wider programme.
Mulago National Referral Hospital, Uganda, is the proposed institutional research lead, with Dr Sharrif Musoke as proposed principal investigator. Subject to approvals, institutional agreements and funding. Kebeza’s proposed contribution is technical and service implementation.
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