Cervical leukoplakia in Ghana: Unveiling diagnostic challenges and informing low-resource screening strategies

• Kofi Effah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre, Catholic Hospital, Battor, Ghana, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Catholic Hospital, Battor, Ghana

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• Ethel Tekpor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre, Catholic Hospital, Battor, Ghana

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• Maxwell Afetor,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Fred N. Binka School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana, Volta Regional Health Directorate, Ghana Health Service, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

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• Joseph Emmanuel Amuah,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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• Comfort Mawusi Wormenor,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Ghana Medical Centre, Accra, Ghana

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• Annita Edinam Dugbazah,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre, Catholic Hospital, Battor, Ghana

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• Stephen Danyo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre, Catholic Hospital, Battor, Ghana

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• Seyram Kemawor,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre, Catholic Hospital, Battor, Ghana, Central Laboratory, Catholic Hospital, Battor, Ghana

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• Edna Sesenu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cervical Cancer Prevention and Training Centre, Catholic Hospital, Battor, Ghana

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• Christopher Nyamekye,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Catholic Hospital, Battor, Ghana

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• Emmanuel Timmy Donkoh ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: timmy.donkoh@uenr.edu.gh

  Affiliation Screen-and-Treat Research Group, Centre for Research in Applied Biology, School of Sciences, University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7476-4578

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• Chrysantus Kubio,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Volta Regional Health Directorate, Ghana Health Service, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

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• Kofi Adum-Attah

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, Cape Coast, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4077-6228

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