Damas Dukundane

A common pathogenic founder variant in Rwandan breast cancer cases

Abstract Germline data from African populations remain sparse, limiting characterization of population-specific BRCA1 /2 pathogenic variants. In a study of 175 Rwandan women with breast cancer, 7 unrelated carriers (4% of cases; 22% of pathogenic variant carriers) harbored the sa...

Antimicrobial resistance and documented empirical antibiotic prescribing among cancer patients with culture-confirmed infections at a tertiary referral hospital in Rwanda, 2019–2024

Abstract Background Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens infection management in cancer patients, yet data from sub-Saharan African oncology settings are scarce. We described the microbiology, resistance patterns and documented empirical prescribing among cancer patients with...