Prevalence, diagnostic methods, and clinical outcomes of wasting/cachexia among pediatric cancer patients in Africa: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Ivaan Pitua ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ivaanpitua780@gmail.com

  Affiliation School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0768-1315

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• Daisy Wannyana,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Victoria University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4401-5225

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• Derrick Bary Abila,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Uganda Child Cancer Foundation, Kampala, Uganda, Uganda Cancer Institute, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6763-5612

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• Felix Bongomin

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Gulu University, Gulu, Uganda

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