{"id":48637,"date":"2022-09-22T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T11:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/wsu-develops-a-cancer-screening-mobile-app-20220920\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T23:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T21:27:28","slug":"wsu-develops-a-cancer-screening-mobile-app-20220920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/mthathaexpress\/wsu-develops-a-cancer-screening-mobile-app-20220920\/","title":{"rendered":"Walter Sisulu University develops a cancer screening mobile app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Walter Sisulu University (WSU) lecturers have partnered with the institution\u2019s computer science honours degree students to develop the world\u2019s first mobile oesophageal cancer screening application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Oesophageal Cancer Screening (ECAS) is a collaborative project between WSU, the University of Venda (Univen) and John Hopkins University in the United States. The medical innovation was a two-part project with phase one looking at the performance and security of the app with the assistance of the first group students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe research shows that the app is secured, and it also has many features that accommodate the type of network that we have in rural areas. In places where there is no network, the app information is stored locally on the cellphone so a person can still use it offline,\u201d said information technology lecturer, Tamba Tamba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the second part of the project, the students focused on the useability of the app, scrutinising colours, fonts and accessibility to different people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOesophageal cancer is a silent disease. It has no symptoms and the minute you start feeling pain, the cancer is already at an advanced stage. As much as it is silent, it is also an aggressive disease,\u201d said Professor Eugene Ndebia. Ndebia further suggested that the best way to manage the disease is early detection so that interventions can be made to save the patient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oesophageal cancer has two types. The first type is the squamous cell carcinoma. This type of oesophageal cancer starts in squamous cells that line the oesophagus. It usually develops in the upper and middle part of the oesophagus; it is the common oesophageal cancer in the Eastern Cape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second type, adenocarcinoma, begins in the glandular tissue in the lower part of the oesophagus, where the oesophagus and the stomach come together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll other cancers have screening apps and have ways to be tested. One such case is cervical cancer which can be tested through pap smear, but oesophageal cancer has nothing. Our application will be the first in the world. We will use technology to save the world,\u201d added Ndebia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ECAS application is available for download on Google Playstore and people can use it at the comfort of their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is high time that our researchers focus on the diseases that are bothering us as people. Back when I was still a medical student in Durban, most oesophageal cancer patients came from the Eastern Cape,\u201d said WSU faculty of health sciences dean, Professor Jabu Mbokazi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mbokazi added that the secret to managing all cancers is early detection and that in some instances it can even be cured. He also said he hoped the app would be able to detect oesophageal cancer in its early stages so that patients can get help before the disease gets out of control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBeing at WSU and being in the rural areas is a great place for research. Most funds are sent to places like Cape Town, although the burden of diseases is here in the Eastern Cape. If we could get those funds we would do more,\u201d concluded Mbokazi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Univen faculty of human social sciences and education executive dean, Prof Bongani Bantwini, reflected on the days where he used to work in the United States as a professor. Bantwini said he discovered that in Africa people died of diseases that do not kill people in other parts of the globe because academics speak a language that is not understood by people affected by the diseases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are going to translate the findings into different languages so that it is not only understood by academics, but by communities as well. 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